The horrors in Gaza show no signs of abating, the UN said on Thursday, noting that the Ministry of Health reports that over 46,000 Palestinians have been killed there since October 2023, most of them women and children.
Tragically in the last month alone, eight newborns have died of hypothermia and 74 children have already died amid the brutal conditions of winter in 2025.
"We enter this New Year carrying the same horrors as the last - there's been no progress and no solace. Children are now freezing to death," Louise Wateridge from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, told UN News.
Meanwhile, hostilities continue with relentless operations by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) causing mass casualties and widespread destruction.
Simultaneously, rocket fire by Palestinian armed groups towards Israel also continues, endangering civilians in the country.
"The Secretary-General again strongly condemns the widespread killing of - and injury to - civilians in this conflict" said his Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric in a briefing on Thursday.
