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Gaza: Top independent rights probe alleges Israel committed genocide

·September 16, 2025·3 min read

In a new report published against the backdrop of intensifying Israeli military operations in Gaza City, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, urged Israel and all countries to fulfil their obligations under international law “to end the genocide” and...

General Assembly endorses New York Declaration on two-State solution between Israel and Palestine

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·September 13, 2025·1 min read

The New York Declaration is the outcome of an international conference held in July at UN Headquarters, organized by France and Saudi Arabia, which resumes later this month. The General Assembly comprises all 193 UN Member States and 142 countries voted in favour of a resolution backing the document. Israel...

LIVE COVERAGE: Day 3 of high-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine

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·July 30, 2025·1 min read

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday warned that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “at a breaking point” and headed toward a one-State reality marked by perpetual occupation and inequality, unless the international community takes urgent, irreversible steps to implement the two-State solution....

LIVE COVERAGE: Day 2 of high-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine

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·July 29, 2025·1 min read

Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aimed at advancing practical steps toward achieving a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Mandated by the General Assembly, the three-day meeting features plenaries, working groups and interventions from senior UN officials and Member States. UN...

LIVE COVERAGE: High-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine

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·July 28, 2025·1 min read

A world in which a sovereign State of Palestine and Israel co-exist peacefully seems a distant prospect, particularly in light of the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel, and the subsequent Israeli bombardment of Gaza. A high-level UN conference opening on 28 July will, nevertheless, serve as the...

UN warns of ‘catastrophic hunger’ in Gaza as Israel announces humanitarian pauses

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·July 27, 2025·4 min read

But as starvation tightens its grip and “children are dying before our eyes,” UN officials and aid workers warn that the measures fall far short of the much-needed ceasefire and unfettered aid access that could help stem the spiralling humanitarian catastrophe. “Welcome announcement of humanitarian pauses in Gaza to allow...

Guterres urges Iran and Israel to ‘fully respect’ ceasefire

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·June 25, 2025·3 min read

Before both sides had confirmed that a ceasefire was in place early Tuesday both sides exchanged fire, with Tehran residents saying they had experienced a heavy barrage of attacks. Before leaving Washington for a NATO summit in Europe, President Trump expressed his frustration at the breaches of the fragile ceasefire...

Gaza is the ‘hungriest place on earth’, as Israel continues stranglehold on aid

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·May 30, 2025·3 min read

“Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth,” OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told reporters in Geneva, stressing that it is the only defined territory in the world where the entire population is at risk of famine. “The aid operation that we have ready to roll is being put in an operational...

Gaza: Top UN envoy calls on Israel to end devastating strikes, starvation of civilians

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·May 29, 2025·7 min read

Sigrid Kaag, interim UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said that the man-made crisis unfolding in Gaza has plunged civilians into “an abyss.” “Since the collapse of the ceasefire in March, civilians have constantly come under fire, confined to ever-shrinking spaces, and deprived of lifesaving relief,” she...

Diplomats prepare ground for June conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine

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·May 25, 2025·2 min read

The preparatory session brought together UN Member States to align expectations and finalise arrangements for eight thematic roundtables that will help shape the conference’s outcome. General Assembly President Philémon Yang urged countries to seize the crucial opportunity to finally make progress. “The horrors we have witnessed in Gaza for over...

Guterres calls on Israel to accept UN’s ‘detailed, principled’ aid plan for Gaza

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·May 24, 2025·2 min read

Addressing reporters outside the Security Council, António Guterres called once again for a permanent ceasefire to end the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants, the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and full humanitarian access so aid can flow in following nearly 80 days of Israeli blockade. ‘Cruellest...

Gaza: Israel ‘approaches UN’ to resume limited aid deliveries, says aid agency

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·May 19, 2025·2 min read

“We have been approached by Israeli authorities to resume limited aid delivery, and we are in discussions with them now on how this would take place given the conditions on the ground,” OCHA said in a statement. It is now 11 weeks since the Israeli authorities closed off all food,...