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 […]
The Palestinian Authority’s permanent representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, said on Monday that “the time has come to stop Israel’s blatant impunity,” Wafa news agency reported. #Israeli Forces Fire at #Palestinian Youth in #Ramallah […]
In 2021, the Israeli targeting of EU-funded aid structures to the Palestinians tripled compared with the monthly average in 2020. In addition, Jewish settlers damaged and stole donor-funded aid, said the United Nations Office for […]
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry yesterday called on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) “to protect all Palestinian archaeological and religious sites from Israeli violations, attacks, and falsifications.” In an official statement, the […]
The United Nations and European members of the Security Council on Friday called on Israel to stop demolitions of Bedouin settlements in the Jordan Valley, and for humanitarian access to the community living in Humsa Al-Baqaia. In a joint statement at […]
The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Lynn Hastings, today called on Israel to halt all demolitions of Palestinian homes and possessions. Lynn also urged Israel to allow the humanitarian community to […]
The Palestine delegation and the Council of Arab Ambassadors to the United Nations are continuing in their meetings and contacts with the members of the International Quartet, the Security Council, and countries of influence. Riyad […]
Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila today urged the United Nations (UN) to help step up the provision of COVID-19 vaccines to the occupied Palestinian territories. #Israel Blocks Shipment of #Russian #Vaccine to #Gaza https://t.co/LtI3yUJtLm via […]
Zionist Colonialism Vs The Post-War Consensus. At just over the 52nd minute of the 1967 film thriller Funeral in Berlin’, a female character who’d been seducing British agent Harry Palmer (played by Michael Caine) confesses […]
The Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday elected in a session held at the United Nations headquarters in New York British human rights lawyer Karim Khan […]
The Palestinians are to receive the first batch of 50,000 coronavirus vaccines by mid-February when they will launch inoculations in the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister said Monday. Speaking ahead of a […]
President Biden has inherited a terribly flawed US foreign policy. For the past few decades, the pro-corporate US foreign policy has been a catastrophic failure, especially in the Middle East. Our criminal military interventions there […]
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor today expressed its grave concern over the Israeli authorities’ arrest of a UN Palestinian employee in Jerusalem, calling for her immediate and unconditional release. The Israeli authorities arrested UN employee […]
A sharp rise in the Israeli army and Jewish settler attacks against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank prompted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today to call on the United Nations Secretary-General and to […]
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), comprising of 11 Palestinian human rights organizations, submitted today a joint urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures focusing on Israel’s continued demolition of Palestinian homes […]
The UN has mastered the art of dissociating itself from colonization, especially that which it has supported through international consensus. Former UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov, who in 2019 […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) called on Friday for the United Nations (UN) Security Council to stop Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians, implementing Resolution 2334. In a statement, the PA’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates […]
The United Nations Human Rights Office today called for a transparent investigation after Israeli occupation forces critically injured several Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli forces critically injured at least four children […]
Although November 29 has galvanized pro-Palestinian communities around the world for decades, a few facts and problems about this day must be acknowledged and redressed. To start with, the history behind that specific date is […]
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