NEW YORK – AFP A UN security services member was killed in an attack on his vehicle in Gaza Monday, a spokesperson said. The Secretary-General “is deeply saddened to learn of the death of a United Nations Department of Safety and Security (DSS) staff member and injury to another DSS staffer when their UN vehicle […]
United Nations, United States – AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday demanded that Israel re-open crossings into Gaza immediately to allow essential aid in, and urged it to “stop any escalation” after it sent tanks into Rafah. “Things are moving in the wrong direction. I am disturbed and distressed by th...
United Nations, United States — AFP UN chief Antonio Guterres has urged Israel against invading southern Gaza’s Rafah, after the Israeli prime minister said an offensive would go forward regardless of a pending deal with Hamas. A military assault on Rafah would “be an unbearable escalation, killing thousands more civilians an...
United Nations, United States – AFP An independent review group on the UN agency for Palestinians found “neutrality-related issues” but noted Israel had yet to provide evidence for allegations that a significant number of its staff were members of terrorist organizations. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) rem...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN Security Council’s president announced on Monday that the council had agreed to officially refer Palestine’s membership application to the “Committee on the Admission of New Members.” Speaking to the press after a closed-door session on Palestine’s membership bid, Malta’s UN en...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Sunday in Cairo that delivering the necessary aid to famine-threatened Gaza “requires Israel removing the remaining obstacles and chokepoints to relief”. Guterres repeated his call for an “immediate humanitarian cease-fire” to alleviate “the pligh...
Rafah, Egypt – AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the doorstep of war-ravaged Gaza, on Saturday said the world has seen enough of its horrors and appealed for a cease-fire to allow in more aid. He spoke at the crossing on the Egyptian side of Rafah, where most of Gaza’s population has […]
The UN Secretary-General says Palestinians in Gaza represent the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the UN anywhere, anytime. Speaking outside the Security Council in New York on Monday, Antonio Guterres, described a recent UN report on the situation as an “appalling indictment of conditions on the grou...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP Global heat records were “smashed” last year, the UN confirmed Tuesday, with 2023 rounding out the hottest decade on record, as heatwaves stalked oceans and glaciers suffered record ice loss. Global heat records were “smashed” last year, the UN confirmed Tuesday, with 2023 rounding out th...
Bamako, Mali – AFP The UN mission in Mali ended a decade of deployment in the crisis-wracked country on Sunday, meeting a December 31 deadline agreed after Mali’s military leaders ordered it to leave. The UN stabilisation mission (MINUSMA) had been in place since 2013, and its withdrawal is igniting fears that fighting will intensi...
