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Here are the top humanitarian headlines today on trust.org:

ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: Israel has bombed more of Gaza's tallest structures, bringing down a 13-storey apartment and office tower and destroying most of a 16-floor residential building after warning occupants to get out. A Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, said Egypt had proposed a new ceasefire and was waiting for Israel to respond, after a five-day truce and indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo on a durable Gaza agreement collapsed a week ago.

SYRIA: Humanitarian access in Syria has improved since the U.N. Security Council last month authorised the delivery of emergency aid across the Syrian border without the government's consent, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report. But he warned that designated terrorist groups continue to prevent aid workers from accessing some of the estimated 10.8 million people in Syria in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.

NATURAL DISASTERS: Heavy flooding across Bangladesh has forced thousands of people from their homes and caused severe damage to crops, with officials warning the situation could worsen as floodwaters pour into the capital, Dhaka.

IRAQ: The United Nations has condemned "appalling, widespread" crimes by Islamic State forces in Iraq, including mass executions of prisoners that could amount to war crimes. 

MORE ON TRUST.ORG

WHO says sending supplies for Ebola outbreak in Congo - Reuters

Liberian doctor who received rare Ebola drug ZMapp dies – Reuters

VIDEO: 10 Tips: A correspondent's guide to reporting on Ebola – Misha Hussain, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Mozambique government, Renamo opposition sign peace deal – Reuters

U.S. judge named to U.N. panel on Gaza conflict – Reuters

Boko Haram leader says ruling Nigerian town by Islamic law - Reuters           

Italy finds six more dead migrants, adding to weekend death toll – Reuters

VIDEO: Liberian slum cordoned off after Ebola outbreak – Reuters

Greenpeace alleges threats, intimidation over Indian coal project – Nita Bhalla, Thomson Reuters Foundation

India's "low castes" still forced to clean human excreta, says HRW - Nita Bhalla, Thomson Reuters Foundation

 

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