Given all the attention focused on the covid-19 pandemic, the Build Back Better bill, the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the media-hyped crises over Ukraine and Taiwan this past year, many other important […]
Though 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues from the previous year that will linger for a bit, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news in 2022 as well. […]
Egypt and the United Nations are trying to pressure Israel to end the detention of Palestinian prisoners and hunger striker Hisham Abu Hawash, media reported yesterday. Al-Mayadeen quoted sources as saying that the Palestinian Islamic […]
A majority of 125 countries in the UN General Assembly backed on Thursday an unprecedented open-ended war crimes investigation against Israel, news agencies reported. The probe was initially approved in May by UN Human Rights […]
The international community must hold Israel to account for its 54-year occupation of Palestine, a UN human rights expert said on Thursday, five years after the UN Security Council called for all settlement activities in […]
Israel must immediately halt its settlement activities, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the peace process in the Middle East said on Tuesday. Tor Wennesland called on Israel “to cease the advancement of all settlement […]
The human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is “disastrous”, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said on Tuesday. Speaking during a meeting organized by the United Nations Committee on the Inalienable […]
Palestinian writer and activist Mohammed El-Kurd delivered a speech at the UN on Monday, blasting the “Israeli settler-colonial regime” for its occupation of Jerusalem, The New Arab reported. “Thank you for these groundbreaking speeches,” came […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday that the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories is a challenge to international peace and security. His remarks came in a tweet that marked the International Day in […]
“I am not talking with you, anti-Zionists, terror-sympathizers, enemies. You’re here by mistake, because [Israel’s first Prime Minister David] Ben-Gurion didn’t finish the job and didn’t throw you out in 1948. That’s the truth, that’s […]
On October 21, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as ‘terrorist organizations’. Gantz claimed that they are secretly linked to the Popular […]
Palestine, on Friday, welcomed a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly that affirms Palestinian sovereignty over its natural resources, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, Palestinian Foreign Minister, Riyad Al-Maliki said: “The voting […]
The Palestinian Authority yesterday called on the United Nations Security Council and Human Rights Council to intervene to release former Palestinian aid worker in the occupied Gaza Strip, Mohammed Al-Halabi. In an official statement, the […]
Gaza is still suffering “from a particularly difficult economic situation with very high unemployment and deteriorating social conditions”, the World Bank warned in a report this week. The report highlights the critical challenges facing the […]
The financial situation in the Palestinian territories is “dire”, a new UN report says citing economic stagnation and persistently high unemployment. The report released on Thursday by the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle […]
United Nations Human Rights experts have expressed alarm “at the rising rate of violence directed by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory”, in a statement released on Wednesday. The experts, led by […]
UN Agencies and the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) have expressed their concern at the Israeli army banning of six Palestinian NGOs operating in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. […]
The administration of US President Joe Biden on Tuesday did not vote against a UN General Assembly Resolution affirming the right of return for Palestinian refugees, breaking the voting pattern set by his predecessor Donald […]
UN human rights experts strongly condemned on Wednesday a recent Israeli government’s announcement regarding its intention to build new housing units in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, in a statement that was received […]
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met American business magnate Bill Gates on the sidelines of the Glasgow Climate Summit COP26, Israeli media reported. According to The Times of Israel, “The pair agree to establish a […]
Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem increased by 21 percent this year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said on Monday. “In September, the […]
Israeli Envoy to the United Nations (UN) Gilad Erdan on Friday tore to pieces the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)’s annual report while on the podium of the UN General Assembly, claiming it was biassed […]
Israel’s decision to designate six Palestinian civil society organizations as ‘terrorist organizations’ is an attack on human rights defenders, on freedoms of association, opinion, and expression, and on the right to public participation, and should […]
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, denounced Israel on Sunday for opening tenders for new settlement units in the occupied West Bank. “Today, the Israeli authorities announced tenders for the […]
Expressing grave fear for the lives of five Palestinians currently on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, United Nations Human Rights experts have called on Israel to either release or charge the prisoners, and completely end […]
The Palestinian Authority has called on the United Nations to send officials to monitor attacks by illegal Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Monday. […]
Monday, October 11, marked the official closure of the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (also known as the Group of Experts or GEE). For nearly four years, this investigative group examined alleged human […]
US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters on Thursday that the United States has concerns with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and will oppose its “disproportionate” attention on Israel, Reuters news agency […]
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 […]
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