Artillery fire pounded southern Gaza early on Wednesday as Israel said it had begun “flooding Hamas tunnels” and mediators sought a halt to the nearly four-month hostilities.

The special representative of the President of Uzbekistan, in a meeting with the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, expressed the desire of their countries to develop joint measures to solve the humanitarian crisis and establish lasting peace in Afghanistan.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has announced that last year Afghanistan suffered its worst drought in 30 years. OCHA has also expressed concern about the continuation of drought in Afghanistan.

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations (OCHA) announced that since the beginning of this year, Afghanistan has received 53 million dollars from the Central Emergency Response Fund of the United Nations and 135 million dollars from the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF) to support and activate humanitarian actions....

The Australian government has said that it will donate 20 million dollars to support people and displaced people in Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan has announced that it will send 100 tons of food, winter clothes, shoes and sanitary products to the Herat earthquake victims in the form of humanitarian aid.

The World Food Program says it needs $840 million in aid over the next six months to help around 7 million people in need in Afghanistan.

The World Food Program has announced that it needs $27.5 million in funding to help refugees forced to return from Pakistan.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) announced that Ireland has donated 500,000 euros to the Afghanistan Relief Fund.

The European Union has announced the arrival of another humanitarian aid shipment to Kabul.

On the sidelines of a joint meeting with his Afghan counterpart in Vietnam, one of the officials of the Swedish Red Crescent Society said in a meeting with the head of the Afghan Red Crescent Society that his country will cooperate and expand its activities in providing assistance to the returnees and earthquake victims of Afghanistan.

The spokesperson of the US State Department has asked the government of Pakistan to adhere to its commitments in dealing with immigrants and asylum seekers and refrain from deporting them.

The regional representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), met with the governor of Herat.

Organizations of the United Nations, have announced that the victims of the Herat earthquake need immediate humanitarian aid.

In a meeting with Mati-ul-Haq Khalis, the head of the Afghan Red Crescent in Doha, Haley Kanrova, the ambassador of the Finnish Embassy in Afghanistan, informed about the continuation of humanitarian aid of her country with the Afghan Red Crescent community and added that Finland's effort is to provide humanitarian services in Afghanistan's health ...

News sources in Gaza today announced the arrival of the first Lorries carrying humanitarian aid, including medicine and food, through the Rafah crossing in Egypt.

The World Health Organization (WHO) called for $7.9 million in funding to provide vital services to the 114,000 residents of Herat.

Tajikistan humanitarian aid caravan arrived in Afghanistan. Local media outlets reported.

The new envoy of Japan to Afghanistan, met with the acting minister of economy, today.

Quake-hit people of Herat have appealed to aid agencies to provide them more help, such as shelter, food and clothing.