New York, 28 March 2024 – The United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, acknowledges the Security Council resolution of 25 March...
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Atrocity Alert No. 388: Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, South Sudan and Nicaragua
Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes. UN...
In response to Gaza war, RSF opens regional press freedom centre in Beirut
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is opening a regional press freedom centre in Beirut, Lebanon, to provide journalists and media covering the war in Gaza and the entire region with the equipment,...
Statement by the Executive Director on Impending Famine in Gaza
The threat of famine is looming over Gaza. Hunger and malnutrition, driven wholly by manmade causes and by a lack of humanitarian access, have spread through Gaza at frightening speed, causing...
PRCS’s Al-Amal Hospital is Out of Service [EN/AR]
(Al-Bireh - Gaza: 3/26/2024): The Palestine Red Crescent Society announces that the Society’s Al-Amal Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis has been taken out of service and has stopped working...
In a week, Israeli army executes 13 children in and near Al-Shifa Hospital [EN/AR]
Palestinian Territory - In blatant violation of international law, particularly international humanitarian law, the Israeli army has executed 13 children by direct shooting in Al-Shifa Medical...
Conseil de sécurité: appels à l’application de la résolution 2728 (2024) exigeant un cessez-le-feu immédiat à Gaza, véritable « lueur d’espoir »
9588E SÉANCE - MATIN CS/15643 Une grande majorité de délégations a, ce matin, demandé l’application de la résolution 2728 (2024) adoptée hier par le Conseil de sécurité et qui exige notamment un...
UN Special Rapporteur report on Gaza provides crucial evidence that must spur international action to prevent genocide [EN/AR]
Amnesty International welcomes the new report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, which concludes there are “reasonable...
Amid Worsening Humanitarian Situation in Gaza, ‘Settlement Activities Have Continued, Intensified’, Special Coordinator Warns Security Council
9588TH MEETING (AM) SC/15643 Delegates Raise Concern Over Non-compliance with Organ’s Demand for Ceasefire While the humanitarian impact of the hostilities in Gaza has been cataclysmic and is...
IFRC statement on the closure of Al-Amal Hospital in Gaza [EN/AR]
Geneva/Beirut, 26 March 2024 Al-Amal Hospital and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) headquarters in Khan Yunis has ceased functioning. For over 40 days, sustained hostilities in and around...
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Israel-Palestina: Israel no puede negarse a garantizar la entrega y distribución de ayuda humanitaria
Las leyes del derecho humanitario internacional señalan que las partes en conflicto deben permitir y facilitar el paso rápido y sin obstáculos de la ayuda humanitaria para los civiles necesitados,...
After surviving Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, Palestinians are being killed by disorderly entry of international aid [EN/AR]
Palestinian Territory - 25 Palestinians who escaped Israeli bombing, gunfire, or starvation in the Gaza Strip have now been killed as a result of the disorderly entry of international aid, either by...
MSF: "La resolución de la ONU es un paso adelante, pero hacen falta medidas concretas y un alto el fuego duradero”
Un alto el fuego de dos semanas no es tiempo suficiente para responder a las abrumadoras necesidades humanitarias en Gaza. Tras más de cinco meses de guerra, el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones...
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Occupied Palestinian Territory: Reporting on settlements and the occupied Syrian Golan
DELIVERED BY Nada Al-Nashif, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights AT 55th session of the Human Rights Council Distinguished President of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, ...
Israel is deliberately starving Gaza civilians [EN/HE]
Israel has been intentionally starving the residents of the Gaza Strip for the last five months, while continuing to punish civilians through its 16-year-long blockade. Starving the civilian...
"The children knew: When we say, 'It's time to go!', it's time to go."
Amidst the conflict, SOS Children's Villages evacuated 68 children, staff, and their families from the SOS Children's Village in Rafah, southern Gaza. In this interview, Samy Ajjour, programme...
States must adhere to obligations under Genocide Convention to prevent further loss of life in Gaza, says Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
GENEVA (26 March 2024) – Israel has destroyed Gaza during five months of military operations, the Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese said today. “The...
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Tor Wennesland, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Briefing to the Security Council on the Situation in the Middle East, 26 March 2024
(As delivered) Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, Before turning to the report, I wish to acknowledge the important message from this Council in yesterday’s passage of resolution 2728...
Gaza's Children: Trapped in a Cycle of Suffering
This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed - at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva GAZA, 26 March 2024 –...
Gaza: ‘Double-digit’ number of children reported killed overnight
Intense hostilities in Gaza continued on Tuesday between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces with a “double-digit number of children killed overnight” and ongoing aid delivery obstacles that are...