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Israeli strikes targeting leaders of Hamas on Lebanon’s soil breach of Intl. law, UN rapporteur warns
Jan 10, 2024 13:56A top UN human rights official has warned that Israeli strikes targeting leaders of the Palestinian Hamas resistance group on Lebanon’s soil are a breach of international law, as bloodshed in the besieged Gaza Strip continues.
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Iran slams US, Israel for diverting attention from ‘root causes’ of Red Sea situation
Jan 09, 2024 08:52Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations rejected US's “unfounded allegations” against Iran concerning Yemen’s pro-Palestine operations in the Red Sea, slamming it as a bid to divert attention from “root causes” of the situation in the key maritime waterway.
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UNRWA says 142 staff members massacred in Gaza since beginning of Israel’s genocidal war
Jan 08, 2024 05:17The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) says more than 140 members of its staff have lost their lives in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s unrelenting bombardment of the besieged coastal territory.
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UNICEF warns Gaza children extremely traumatized, chronically underfed
Jan 06, 2024 13:59The United Nations children’s agency has warned that the children trapped in the Gaza Strip are chronically underfed and extremely traumatized due to the Israeli regime’s months-long genocidal war on the besieged Palestinian territory.
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UN 'very disturbed' by Israeli ministers’ calls for Palestinians to migrate from Gaza
Jan 05, 2024 05:01The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has said that he was "very disturbed" by Israeli calls for Palestinians to leave the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that international law prohibits their forcible transfer.
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UN Security Council condemns terrorist attack in Iran
Jan 05, 2024 02:29The United Nations Security Council has condemned the terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman that claimed the lives of 84 people on Wednesday.
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Top UN court to consider genocide case against Israel over Gaza war next week
Jan 04, 2024 11:34Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague will hear a case on Israel’s “genocidal” acts in the besieged Gaza Strip next week, as a horrible nightmare of bloodshed in the Palestinian territory is unfolding due to the occupying regime’s incessant bombing.
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UN agency chief warns of ‘unbearable suffering’ in Gaza
Jan 04, 2024 04:41The commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has warned of "unbearable suffering" and the spread of disease in the Gaza Strip, as a nightmare of bloodshed in Gaza is unfolding due to Israel's incessant bombing of the coastal territory.
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Iran to use all available mechanisms to ensure accountability for terror attacks: UN envoy
Jan 04, 2024 02:53Iran's UN envoy says the country is to use "all available mechanisms" to ensure accountability for the perpetrators of earlier hugely deadly terror attacks that targeted the southwestern Iranian city of Kerman.
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UN slams Ukrainian deadly attack on Belgorod as ‘unacceptable’
Dec 31, 2023 05:59The United Nations has condemned Ukraine’s deadly shelling of the Russian border city of Belgorod as “unacceptable,” which resulted in the killing of dozens of civilians.