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In 2025, Médecins Sans Frontières reported extremely high levels of malnutrition among displaced children and adults in Tawila, Sudan.

The World Health Organization reported in 2025 that fighting in Sudan had killed at least 40,000 people.

The World Food Programme reported in 2025 that over 24 million people in Sudan were facing acute food insecurity.

Palestinian militants released the remains of 17 hostages that had been held in Gaza for about two years, as of 2025-11-01.

By October 2025, roughly two and a half years of armed conflict in Sudan had resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and approximately 14 million people displaced, a situation the United Nations described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) can receive custody of and transport human remains during armed conflicts.

As of 2025, the government of Israel controls the borders of the Gaza Strip and has imposed sustained restrictions on shipments of food, medicine, fuel, and gas into Gaza.

In 2025, humanitarian organizations stated that allowing roughly 600 truckloads of humanitarian aid per day into the Gaza Strip is the minimum amount needed to prevent famine from spreading.

The Gaza Strip is a densely populated territory, which increases the complexity of delivering humanitarian aid and undertaking reconstruction.

Damage to road infrastructure in conflict-affected urban areas can impede the movement of aid trucks and complicate humanitarian supply delivery.

Gaza's Health Ministry reported that more than 67,000 Palestinians had been killed in the fighting and that around half of those deaths were women and children, as reported on 2025-10-13.

Gaza's Health Ministry reported that about 90% of Gaza's population, from an estimated population of roughly 2 million, had been displaced, as reported on 2025-10-13.

COGAT is an Israeli unit charged with humanitarian coordination.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is a United Nations entity involved in coordinating humanitarian aid.

The Gaza Strip has a population of nearly 2 million Palestinians.

The ceasefire in Gaza that began on 2025-10-10 includes a requirement that Hamas return all remains of hostages in Gaza as soon as possible.

Delays in returning the remains of hostages can complicate efforts to proceed from an initial ceasefire to later phases such as disarmament and governance arrangements.

As of 2025-10-07, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 67,160 Palestinian deaths and nearly 170,000 wounded in the war in Gaza; the ministry stated it does not differentiate between civilians and combatants and that more than half of the deaths were women and children, and the ministry is part of the Hamas-run government; the United Nations and many independent experts consider the ministry’s figures to be the most reliable estimate of wartime casualties.

By Oct. 7, 2025, reporting attributed that Israel's military offensive in Gaza had killed more than 67,000 people, displaced around 90% of the Gaza Strip's roughly 2,000,000 residents, and created a humanitarian crisis with experts saying Gaza City was experiencing famine.

United Nations estimates indicate the Darfur conflict killed about 300,000 people and displaced approximately 2.5 million people.

The U.S. government suspended direct funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in January 2024.

The Biden administration provided approximately $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) between 2021 and the funding freeze in 2024.

Since 1994, U.S. aircraft carriers have transited U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) waters to conduct exercises and to support humanitarian efforts.

Deliberate attacks on power and heating infrastructure are used as a strategy to deprive civilian populations of heat, light, and running water ahead of winter, with the aims of eroding public morale and disrupting industrial and military manufacturing.

A proposed 'temporary International Stabilization Force' for Gaza was described as intended to secure areas vacated by Israeli forces, prevent munitions from entering the territory, facilitate distribution of humanitarian aid, and train a Palestinian police force.

Under international humanitarian law, the parties to an armed conflict are responsible for searching for, collecting, and returning the dead to their families.

The ICRC has historically overseen exchanges of remains and has served as one of the few channels of communication between adversaries during active conflicts, including exchanges in conflicts involving Israel and armed groups in Gaza and Lebanon.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification is a leading international authority that classifies hunger crises and issues famine and other acute food-insecurity phase designations.

The Norwegian Refugee Council conducts field-based interviews and records testimonies from survivors in conflict-affected areas to document displacement, protection concerns, and abuses.

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) operates hospitals and provides emergency medical care in conflict-affected and humanitarian crisis settings.

A shortage of DNA testing kits can complicate the identification of human remains in conflict settings.

Humanitarian reporting indicates that the conflict in Sudan has produced very large humanitarian needs, with at least 40,000 reported deaths and roughly 12 million people displaced.