The year 2020 was the worst for the Palestinian Authority (PA) since its establishment in 1994 due to the Israeli occupation and the coronavirus pandemic, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said Monday. […]
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet said Monday that Iran had crossed all the “red lines” aimed at curbing its nuclear weapons program but that Israel “will not allow” Tehran to get the bomb, The New […]
Israeli occupation forces injured 568 Palestinians, including 73 children, across the West Bank between September 7-20, according to the biweekly Protection of Civilians report published on Friday by the United Nations Office for the Coordination […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday gave Israel only one year to withdraw from the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, according to Reuters. “If this is not achieved, why maintain […]
The Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip in May 2021 had catastrophic economic effects, especially on the productive sector, and caused direct and indirect losses exceeding half a billion dollars in various sectors, Euro-Mediterranean […]
The decision by the African Union Commission, on July 22, to grant Israel observer status membership in the AU was the culmination of years of relentless Israeli efforts aimed at co-opting Africa’s largest political institution. […]
So “deeply concerned” is the UN at the Israeli raid of the offices of Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCIP), that the belated official statement by the special rapporteurs suggests that Israel – a colonial, military […]
Between July 27 and August 9, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished, seized or forced people to demolish 57 Palestinian-owned structures across the West Bank, according to a report published by the United Nations Office for […]
The Israeli army fired artillery rounds into South Lebanon in what it described as ‘retaliation’ for earlier rocket fire which triggered warning alarms in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and Upper Galilee. On Friday, Israel’s […]
The United Nations (UN) urged Israel on Thursday to investigate the killing of a Palestinian child, 12-year-old Mohammad al-Alami, who was shot in the chest near the town of Beit Ummar in the southern West […]
Do you remember the United Nations Millennium Development Goals? If not, you are not alone. These ambitious goals, which included the eradication of “extreme poverty and hunger”, to “combating lethal diseases” and “reducing child mortality […]
United Nations special rapporteurs Monday called for the rescheduling of Palestinian elections within a reasonable time to ensure “free, fair, democratic, peaceful, and credible” polls, Anadolu News Agency reported. The Palestinian parliamentary elections had been […]
The President of the UN Human Rights Council, Shameem Khan, has announced the appointment of three members of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, to investigate “alleged […]
Michael Lynk, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), has made damning findings on Israel’s illegal settlements. In his report on Friday to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), he […]
Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank amount to a war crime, a UN official said today, calling on countries to make clear to Israel that its “illegal occupation” cannot be cost-free, Reuters reported. Michael […]
The eleven days of hostilities in May 2021 in Gaza resulted in the loss of over 260 people, including 66 children and 41 women, and exacerbated previous traumas in particular among children. The human toll […]
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said that he strongly opposes an investigation into Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. He claimed that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has no jurisdiction over the occupation state. “The German […]
The UN is “concerned” about the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s suppression of freedoms in the occupied West Bank, the spokesman for the UN secretary-general has said. In a news brief held yesterday afternoon, Stéphane Dujarric addressed […]
Two United Nations officials Wednesday visited the Palestinian refugee families at imminent risk of forced expulsions from their homes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The United Nations agency responsible for Palestinian […]
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has summoned the Philippines envoy, Macairog Alberto, to protest against his country’s vote in favor of forming an inquiry commission into Israel’s violations in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reported. On […]
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) decided on Thursday, May 27, to “urgently establish an ongoing independent, international commission of inquiry,” to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council, to, “Investigate […]
Israel’s recent barrage of deadly airstrikes on Gaza might be war crimes, the UN rights chief said Thursday, adding she had seen no evidence the attacked buildings were used for military purposes. Addressing a special […]
Today, two Anera trucks entered the Gaza Strip with shipments of medical aid. These are the first medical aid shipments coordinated with UN agencies and NGOs to come into the territory since the Israeli aggression […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday expressed his “deep concern” over the continuing violence in occupied East Jerusalem, as well as the possible evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah and […]
The United Nations has urged Palestinian authorities to set a new date for the elections originally scheduled for the end of May, following President Mahmoud Abbas’ announcement on Friday that they would be postponed. Protests […]
At a recent virtual J Street Conference, US Senators, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren broke yet another political taboo when they expressed willingness to leverage US military aid as a way to pressure Israel to […]
The United Nations Security Council is expected to hold today an open session chaired by Vietnam to discuss several issues, including pressuring Israel not to obstruct the holding of elections in all the occupied Palestinian […]
UN human rights experts have warned that violent attacks against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, including physical assaults and property demolitions carried out by Jewish settlers, have increased drastically in recent months. More […]
The Trump era is over, or so the Middle East Quartet would have us believe. Now that the Zionist colonization project is back to contending diplomatically with the two-state compromise, the main international actors are […]
The international Middle East Quartet – made up of the European Union, the Russian Federation, the United States, and the United Nations – discussed on Tuesday a “return to meaningful negotiations” for a solution to […]
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