GENEVA, June 3 — United Nations (UN) human rights experts have called for the safe passage of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessel Madleen, which departed from Italy on Sunday carrying essential medical supplies, food and children's items destined for Gaza, the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported.

SINGAPORE, May 31 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has urged the international community to act decisively and consistently in response to the genocide in Gaza.

UNITED NATIONS, May 31 — The situation in Gaza is the worst since the war between Israel and Hamas began 19-months ago, the United Nations said on Friday, despite a resumption of limited aid deliveries in the Palestinian enclave where famine looms.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 28 — Asean member states have expressed grave concern over the continued war in Gaza and the Middle East, according to the Chairman’s Statement issued yesterday following the conclusion of the 46th Asean Summit.

CAIRO, May 27 — Palestinians voiced wariness today towards a United States-backed foundation set to bring aid to Gaza amid signs of famine, with Hamas warnings about biometric screening procedures keeping many away from distribution points.

GENEVA, May 26 — The majority of supplies of medical equipment have run out in Gaza, while 42 per cent of basic medicines including pain killers are out of stock, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, May 26 — The head of a United States-backed foundation set to supply aid in Gaza quit unexpectedly yesterday, a day before the group was due to begin operations, as an Israeli airstrike on a school building killed dozens of Palestinians sheltering inside.

ISTANBUL, May 26 — UN World Food Programme (WFP) executive director Cindy McCain warned yesterday that half a million people in Gaza are "extremely food insecure" and at risk of famine, urging the international community to step up efforts to deliver humanitarian aid on a large scale, Anadolu Ajansi reported.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 — Malaysia has called on Asean to speak firmly and collectively in defence of international law, citing the crises in Gaza and Myanmar as tests of the bloc’s moral responsibility.

CAIRO, May 23 — The first aid deliveries have reached the population of the Gaza Strip after an almost three-month blockade by Israel, during which humanitarian organisations warned of acute levels of hunger, German Press Agency (dpa) reported.

GENEVA, May 23 — The president of the Palestine Red Crescent Society has claimed that no civilians in Gaza have received any of the humanitarian aid that crossed the border this week, warning that the limited deliveries could trigger chaos and violence.

PUTRAJAYA, May 22 — Malaysia has welcomed the joint statement issued on May 19 by the foreign ministers of 23 donor countries to Palestine, calling for the immediate and full resumption of humanitarian aid into Gaza and condemning Israel’s continued obstruction of life-saving assistance.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — Malaysia and Palestine have agreed to strengthen strategic cooperation towards health systems that are fair, resilient and based on universal human values.

VATICAN CITY, May 21 — Pope Leo XIV today appealed for Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, calling the situation in the Palestinian enclave “yet more worrying and saddening”.

CAIRO, May 18 — Israel’s airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight, local health authorities said today, as mediators hosted a new round of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.

WASHINGTON, May 17 — The United Nations (UN) relief chief said Friday that it has a plan to resume aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Ajansi reported.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, May 13 — An Israeli-American hostage was released from 19 months of captivity in Gaza during a brief pause in fighting yesterday and reunited with his family, but Israeli strikes on the battered enclave soon resumed.

VATICAN CITY, May 5 — One of Pope Francis' popemobiles is being transformed into a mobile health clinic for children in the Gaza Strip, fulfilling one of his final wishes, the Vatican's official media outlet said yesterday.

GENEVA, May 2 — The minds and bodies of children in Gaza are being broken following two months of aid blockade and renewed strikes, the executive director of the World Health Organisation emergencies programme said yesterday.

DOHA, April 27 — Qatar Prime Minister heikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said today that efforts to reach a new ceasefire in Gaza have progressed but an agreement between Israel and Hamas to end the war remains elusive.