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“Thousands of families now shelter in damaged and destroyed facilities in Khan Younis, where UNRWA keeps providing essential services, despite increasing challenges. Conditions are unspeakable.”

After more than two months of blockages due to violent clashes between armed groups, WFP has made important progress, delivering truckloads of food to the highly vulnerable neighbourhood.

“We have a cohort of more than 600 patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV, and many of them tell us that they can no longer follow the treatment properly because of the lack of food,” - MSF team leader.

The NRC's annual list of neglected displacement crises is based on the lack of humanitarian funding, media attention, and international political and diplomatic initiatives.

The IFRC launched a CHF 12.5 million Emergency Appeal that aims to assist 650,000 people in the 8 hardest-hit districts with clean water, food, medical aid and cash assistance.

The latest estimates show that more than half a million children in Haiti are living in neighbourhoods controlled by armed groups, which puts them at higher risk of violence, and child recruitment.

The rains, which followed years of drought, have displaced more than 420,000 people and killed at least 330 after unusually heavy flooding in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.

Tigray region in the north hosts the highest number of IDPs primarily due to conflict, while the Somali region in the east hosts the highest number of those internally displaced by drought.