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General Assembly president calls for ‘sustainable support’ for UNRWA amid funding cuts
Feb 26, 2024 07:10Dennis Francis, the President of the UN General Assembly, has called for UN member states to provide “sustainable and predictable financial and political support” to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees operating in Gaza.
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Palestinians dying of hunger as world watches in silence: Gaza official
Feb 24, 2024 15:15The world is watching in silence as the Palestinians are dying of hunger in light of Israel’s savage campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip, says the civil defense spokesperson in Gaza.
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South Africa urges countries to testify at ICJ against Israel
Feb 24, 2024 15:14South Africa has called on all countries to testify in a case it has filed against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in order to punish the occupying regime for its crimes against the besieged Gaza Strip.
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UN experts urge countries to immediately halt arms exports to Israel
Feb 24, 2024 15:11A group of UN experts have warned that any transfer of weapons or ammunition to Israel that would be used in ground and aerial assault against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip is likely to violate international humanitarian law, and must cease immediately.
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Leader slams US for ‘brazenly vetoing’ Gaza truce resolution
Feb 24, 2024 12:13Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has denounced the US for “brazenly vetoing” a UN Security Council resolution to stop the ongoing Israeli genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Arms transfer to Israel must stop immediately: UN experts
Feb 23, 2024 15:42UN experts have called for an immediate halt to weapons transfer to the illegal Zionist entity, warning that state officials involved in arms exports to the regime "may be individually criminally liable for aiding and abetting any war crimes" in the Gaza Strip.
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Sexual violence in Sudan may amount to war crimes: UN report
Feb 23, 2024 15:12The United Nations has warned that sexual assault reports coming from Sudan may amount to war crimes as at least 118 people have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in more than 10 months of conflict.
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UN agency for Palestinians refugees at 'breaking point' in Gaza
Feb 23, 2024 12:11The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the current situation in Gaza has limited UNRWA’s ability to implement its mandate and pushed it to “breaking point.”
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Iran raps US’ veto of new UNSC resolution on Gaza
Feb 22, 2024 14:00The US’ decision to veto yet another UN Security Council draft resolution that had demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza indicates Washington’s responsibility for the continuation of war crimes against Palestinians, Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi said.
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UN staff: Israeli siege renders Gaza's Nasser Hospital a 'place of death'
Feb 22, 2024 13:34UN staff members who helped evacuate critically wounded patients from Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip have described "appalling" conditions in the territory’s second-largest medical facility, saying it has turned into a “place of death.”