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US blocks UNSC motion to condemn Israel over shooting of Gaza aid-seekers
Mar 01, 2024 13:16The United States has once again backed Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, blocking a UN Security Council statement that would have blamed the Israeli forces for killing Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in the besieged strip.
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Gaza aid massacre: Palestinian envoy urges 'paralyzed' UN to stop Israel
Mar 01, 2024 06:13Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour has appealed to the Security Council to condemn the loss of more than 100 Palestinian lives and injury of nearly 700 individuals in an Israeli attack on a crowd waiting for food in Gaza City.
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No words can capture horrors unfolding in Gaza: UN rights chief
Mar 01, 2024 04:46The United Nations human rights chief expresses dismay concerning the brutality with which the Israeli regime is leading its ongoing months-long war of genocide against the Gaza Strip.
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Iran decries West’s silence after Israeli attack on aid convoy kills over 100
Feb 29, 2024 14:23Iran has lashed out the US and the Europeans for their silence over the “genocide” in Gaza, after Israeli forces fired on people on an aid convoy in Gaza City and killed more than 100 Palestinians on Thursday.
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'Stain on intl. community': Top aid worker 'shocked' by catastrophic humanitarian condition in Rafah visit
Feb 29, 2024 09:31The head of a Norway-based NGO has been “shocked” after witnessing the catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Rafah in southern Gaza, caused by the Israeli regime’s months-long genocidal war on the besieged Palestinian territory.
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120 individuals, groups urge UN to probe Israeli attacks on journalists in Lebanon
Feb 29, 2024 04:58More than 120 individuals and organizations have demanded a UN investigation into Israel’s assaults on reporters in southern Lebanon.
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Iran urges UN action to avert ‘catastrophe of century’ in Gaza
Feb 28, 2024 05:33Denouncing the systematic violation of human rights in Gaza as the catastrophe of the century, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called on the UN to take serious action to avert the disaster.
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Israeli forces stop UN convoy, detain and strip-search paramedics
Feb 27, 2024 14:21Israeli regime forces in the Gaza Strip have stopped a UN ambulance convoy that was evacuating critically-ill patients from a hospital in the southern city of Khan Younes before detaining and strip-searching the paramedics in the convoy.
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Israel must be held to account for starving Palestinians in Gaza: UN rapporteur
Feb 27, 2024 12:05United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food says Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and genocide as it has deliberately been starving Palestinians in Gaza.
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US escalating regional tensions, Iran warns UN
Feb 26, 2024 10:48The Iranian foreign minister denounced the US’ attempts to escalate tensions in the Red Sea and Yemen, warning that such militaristic approaches will ruin joint efforts by Iran and the United Nations.