“Hungry men are desperate men, especially when their children also are hungry.” ... Prelude to the UN: As the Second World War raged, a remarkable international effort was already taking shape to help rebuild a shattered world. Founded in November 1943, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) began its work before the United Nations itself had been constituted. Faced with hunger, disease, mass displacement and devastation, it helped deliver the essentials of survival and offered hope to millions struggling to rebuild their lives. Beyond emergency relief, UNRRA became a pioneering experiment in international cooperation. UN Video highlights UNRRA’s extraordinary mission through archival footage and personal testimony. Watch Before the UN: The Forgotten Story of UNRRA:

 

Director-General Herbert Lehman of UNRRA said, “Hungry men are desperate men, especially when their children also are hungry.”

 

UNRRA was very successful in communicating the message that solidarity is not charity but it is enlightened self-interest.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oZkH-AZwM0&t=313s 

 

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/10/1168665 

 

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Three more Palestinian children have frozen to death due to the "severe cold" as Israel continues to bar the entry of temporary homes into Gaza, says Saeed Salah, director of the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society.

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Three more Palestinian children have frozen to death due to the "severe cold" as Israel continues to bar the entry of temporary homes into Gaza, says Saeed Salah, director of the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society.

 

"Currently, I am in the city of Khan Younis surrounded by destruction as families live in the remains of destroyed residential buildings. And children live inside these buildings without any type of essential humanitarian facilities, including electricity, water and sanitation.

That is why mobile homes and shelters are highly required by the Palestinian faction in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement.

But Israel, until now, has not allowed a sufficient number of mobile shelters and tents to enter the Gaza Strip.

Families have been using makeshift tents for more than one and a half years, and now they live in open spaces. In particular, children and the elderly have been left vulnerable to facing the cold weather in Gaza."

Tareq Abu Azzoum

Reporting from Khan Younis, Gaza

Updates: Israel keeps up West Bank raids; 3 Gaza children freeze to death

 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/25/live-israel-demolishes-vast-areas-of-west-banks-jenin-sets-up-army-base

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