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Security Council LIVE: ‘Devastation’ in Gaza and beyond reinforces need to end Palestine occupation

·September 29, 2025·1 min read

The UN Security Council is meeting to discuss the Middle East crisis and protection of civilians in conflict, as speculation grows of a potential deal to end the war in Gaza with US President Donald Trump and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu meeting in the White House for talks on Monday....

What to know ahead of the UN summit on the Question of Palestine

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·September 22, 2025·1 min read

A settler woman walks past an Israeli soldier standing guard in East Jerusalem. Photo: IRIN/Andreas Hackl (file photo) What to expect from the September 22 summit Held on the opening day of the UN General Assembly’s high-level week – the annual September gathering of world leaders – the initiative comes...

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...

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...

Palestine: International law obliges Israel to end occupation, says rights panel

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·October 20, 2024·2 min read

It details the obligations for Israel, third-party States and the UN to bring to an end the unlawful occupation, according to the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel. “Israel’s internationally wrongful acts give rise to State responsibility, not only for...

World News in Brief: Famine in Sudan, 400,000 now in Syria from Lebanon, women in the military, olive farmers in Palestine

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·October 18, 2024·3 min read

“Never in modern history have so many people faced starvation and famine as in Sudan today,” the UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts said. Zamzam camp in North Darfur, home to half a million IDPs, faces some of the direst conditions. Other IDP camps in El Fasher are also at risk...

LIVE: General Assembly resumes emergency special session on Palestine

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·September 17, 2024·1 min read

Ambassadors in the UN General Assembly again discussed on Monday the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and the critical work of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which is facing an existential threat, hearing a briefing by its Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, and holding a heated debate on the US...

$20 million appeal to support Palestine labour market

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·November 10, 2023·2 min read

The funding appeal – launched on Thursday in Geneva – will be used to implement a three-phase programme to provide immediate relief and support longer-term job and business recovery, as well as social protection. “The hostilities have resulted in – and continue to cause – both a tragic loss of...

Palestine: Rights experts call for stronger torture prevention measures

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·September 26, 2023·1 min read

The members of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) issued the appeal after concluding their first visit to the State of Palestine, conducted from 10 to 21 September. Daniel Fink, who headed the delegation, said they received full cooperation from the Palestinian Authority to visit locations in the West Bank, “but...