Hundreds of internally displaced Palestinians gather outside a charity kitchen in Gaza City to receive limited food rations, 18 May 2025. (Keystone/EPA/Haitham Imad)

📦More than 100 aid groups warn of starvation in Gaza as Israeli strikes kill 21 overnight. Médecins Sans Frontières is among 115 NGOs that signed an open letter, warning that their own colleagues as well as the general population “waste away”.

📢Gaza Humanitarian Foundation asks the UN relief chief to meet about collaborating. The foundation behind Gaza's controversial militarised aid hubs sent a letter to Tom Fletcher, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, as it steps up a campaign to win international support.

🌍World court hearing says climate change is ‘urgent and existential threat’. The International Court of Justice delivered a landmark opinion two years after small island states succeeded in lobbying the UN General Assembly to request it.

🦟World Health Organization raises concern about spread of mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus. The WHO called for prevention as cases of the disease spread from the Indian Ocean region to Europe and elsewhere.

✂️White House budget cuts harm UN programmes it says it supports. Recent legislation passed by the US Congress may see foreign aid cuts going beyond the UN80 restructuring plans.