Hira Humayun

News Desk Producer, CNN International

Hira Humayun is a producer on CNN's International Desk in Atlanta.
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EREZ WEST CROSSING, ISRAEL - NOVEMBER 11: Trucks carrying humanitarian aid cross into the Gaza Strip on November 11, 2024 in Erez West Crossing, Israel. Last month, the UN's Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, Joyce Msuya, said that Israel had blocked food aid from entering northern Gaza between October 2-15. According to the UN, more than 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing "extremely critical" levels of hunger. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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Nearly a hundred aid trucks looted in Gaza, as UN warns of ‘collapse of law and order’
Nov 19, 2024
Nearly one hundred aid trucks were looted in southern Gaza on Saturday in what the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has described as “one of the worst” incidents of its kind.
Palestinians search through the rubble of a building after an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 29, 2024, amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. Gaza's civil defence agency said on October 29, that an overnight Israeli air strike killed more than 55 people in a residential building in the northern district of Beit Lahia. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Live Updates October 30, 2024 Middle East war news
Oct 31, 2024
Top US officials are heading to the Middle East seeking progress on resolving the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon and to deter a further Iranian response to Israel. Follow live updates.
TOPSHOT - This picture taken on February 3, 2024, shows the UNRWA-run Sheikh Radwan Clinic, destroyed during Israeli bombardment on Gaza City, as battles continue between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Live Updates October 29, 2024 Middle East war news
Oct 30, 2024
Israel has passed a law banning the UN’s relief agency for Palestinians from operating in the country, in a move sharply criticized by multiple Western countries. Follow live updates here.
People search for survivors and victims in the rubble of a four-story house, following Israeli bombardment in the Zarqa neighborhood in the north of Gaza City on October 26, 2024.
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Live Updates October 28, 2024 Middle East war news
Oct 29, 2024
Israel’s military operations in northern Gaza killed dozens of Palestinians on the weekend, according to officials in the enclave, while ceasefire talks resumed in Qatar. Follow for live news updates.
FILE - Yahya Sinwar chairs a meeting with leaders of Palestinian factions at his office in Gaza City, April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)
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Israeli official floats safe passage for Oct. 7 architect Yahya Sinwar in return for hostages
Sep 11, 2024
“Safe passage to him and whoever he wants to join him out of Gaza,” Israel’s Coordinator for Hostages and the Missing Gal Hirsch told CNN’s Jessica Dean on Sunday.
Press Briefing by the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric at UN Headquarters in New York on July 1, 2024. (Photo by Lev Radin/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)
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Israeli soldiers rammed UN vehicles with bulldozer and fired shots before letting them go, says UN spokesperson
Sep 10, 2024
The situation “escalated quickly” after the Israeli military stopped the convoy at a checkpoint and demanded to take two of its 12 passengers for questioning, according to the spokesperson.
Rescue teams work at the scene after an ice cave partially collapsed, at the Breidamerkurjokull glacier, in southeastern Iceland, on Augist 26, 2024.
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One American tourist dead in Iceland following ice cave collapse
Aug 27, 2024
One American man is dead, and an American woman is injured in Iceland following a collapse of the Breiðamerkurjökull ice cave, Iceland’s public broadcaster RUV said Monday.
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Israeli settlers attack West Bank village, drawing condemnation from top officials
Aug 16, 2024
An assault by dozens of Israeli settlers has devastated a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, drawing blistering condemnation from top Israeli officials.
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Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza
Aug 2, 2024
Two Al Jazeera correspondents were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Al-Shati refugee camp, northern Gaza, on Wednesday, sparking condemnation from advocacy groups and highlighting the dangers for local reporters covering the horrors of Israel’s offensive.
Oil tanks burn at the port in Hodeidah, Yemen, Saturday, July 20, 2024. The Israeli army said it has struck several Houthi targets in western Yemen following a fatal drone attack by the rebel group in Tel Aviv the previous day. (AP Photo)
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At least 6 killed, Houthis say, as Israeli airstrikes hit Yemen day after Tel Aviv drone attack
Jul 21, 2024
At least three people were killed and scores more injured in Israeli airstrikes on a Yemeni port, Houthi rebels have said, a day after the Iran-backed group claimed a deadly attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
File image of the Cap-Haitien coast, Haiti, on July 22, 2021.
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40 people killed in migrant boat fire off Haiti’s coast, says aid agency
Jul 19, 2024
Gang violence, a collapsing health system, and a lack of access to essential supplies have driven many Haitians to attempt dangerous journeys out of the country.
KYIV, UKRAINE - JULY 8: People clear rubble from a building of one of the largest children’s hospitals of Ukraine, ‘Okhmatdyt’, partially destroyed by a Russian missile strike on July 8, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine. In the morning, the Russian army carried out a mass missile attack on the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, using more than 40 missiles of various types. In Kyiv, residential buildings, infrastructure facilities and children’s hospital ‘Okhmatdyt’ were damaged. Rescuers continue to search for people under the rubble. (Photo by Valentyna Polishchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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UN says ‘high likelihood’ a Russian cruise missile hit Ukraine’s main children’s hospital
Jul 10, 2024
Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital likely took a direct hit from a Russian missile on Monday, a United Nations assessment has found, as NATO agreed to strengthen Kyiv’s air defenses in the wake of the attack.
TOPSHOT - Sudanese security forces patrol in a commercial district in Gedaref city in eastern Sudan on April 3, 2024. Sudan's war has claimed thousands of lives and displaced more than 8.5 million people, according to the UN. (Photo by Ebrahim Hamid / AFP) (Photo by EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)
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Death toll in Sudan’s El Fasher reaches 134 amid deadly fighting, MSF says
May 27, 2024
At least 134 people have been killed in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state since May 10, amid the intense fighting, according to a statement from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Sunday.
This photo from the Turks and Caicos Islands Governor's Office on Monday shows a US congressional delegation visiting Turks and Caicos to discuss the recent arrests of US nationals.
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Turks and Caicos slams US lawmaker’s remarks ahead of sentencing of American on ammunition charges
May 24, 2024
Turks and Caicos officials have slammed remarks from US lawmakers who traveled to the islands earlier this week to press for the release of the Americans who were arrested there – and could possibly face 12-year sentences.
The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building, Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters.
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UN member nations vote overwhelmingly to back Palestinian membership bid
May 10, 2024
A General Assembly resolution in support of Palestinian membership and granting new procedural rights passed with 143 votes in favor, nine against, and 25 abstentions.
Members of Haiti's transitional council: Edgard Leblanc Fils, Regine Abraham, and Fritz Alphonse Jean in Port-au-Prince on April 25.
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Haiti’s transitional government names new council president, proposes interim prime minister
Apr 30, 2024
Council responsible for paving the way for elections names Edgard Leblanc Fils as its president and proposes former sports minister Fritz Bélizaire as interim prime minister.

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Hira Humayun is a producer on CNN’s International Desk in Atlanta.

She began her career at CNN as an intern with the CNN International features team before becoming a News Assistant, and transitioned to the International Desk in 2018.