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Father of Gaza hostage calls for an end to war – and a two-State solution

·October 8, 2025·2 min read

On 7 October 2023, Corporal Nimrod Cohen was guarding the area near the Nirim kibbutz close to Gaza frontier, when his tank malfunctioned and his unit was overrun by armed militants. Nimrod was the only one taken alive, and his father has received credible reports – including from some of...

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...

‘There is no military solution’ to end Israel-Palestine conflict, Security Council hears, as starvation stalks the Gaza Strip

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·August 11, 2025·2 min read

Two top UN officials warned that the Israeli cabinet’s green light this week for a fresh offensive aimed at gaining total military control of Gaza City – home to around one million Palestinians – would only risk igniting “another horrific chapter” of displacement, death and destruction. Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General...

Gaza: Nearly 1,400 Palestinians killed while seeking food, as UN warns airdrops are no solution

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·August 2, 2025·1 min read

Between 30 and 31 July alone, 105 Palestinians were killed and at least 680 more injured along the convoy routes in the Zikim area in North Gaza, southern Khan Younis, and in the vicinity of the GHF sites in Middle Gaza and Rafah, the office (OHCHR) said in a press...

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...

While Gaza ceasefire remains elusive, UN readies for conference around Israel-Palestine two-State solution

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·July 28, 2025·3 min read

“It’s not a peace conference,” Bob Rae, Canada’s Ambassador to the UN, told UN News ahead of the event, mandated by the General Assembly, in which his country will play a leading role. “It’s a way of trying to maintain the debate and get beyond the sticking points to the...

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...

DR Congo: Despite efforts towards a political solution, violence still rages in the east

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·June 28, 2025·1 min read

Since January, the region has seen a new escalation of violence as the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group launched an offensive in North and South Kivu provinces. While tensions persist in the DRC, both frontlines and negotiation positions are shifting, paving the way for peace, the Security Council heard this Friday. The path to lasting...

UN chief urges world leaders to keep two-State solution ‘alive’

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·June 9, 2025·1 min read

“It is absolutely essential to keep alive the two-State solution perspective with all the terrible things we are witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank,” Mr. Guterres told reporters at UN Headquarters in New York. He was responding to a question about his message to leaders gathering at a high-level...

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...

Political solution to end war in Yemen is achievable, UN envoy says

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·February 16, 2025·4 min read

Hans Grundberg briefed on latest political developments in the country, where Houthi rebels, also known as Ansar Allah, and Government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, have been battling for power for more than a decade. He spoke alongside UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher who updated on the “perilous”...