WASHINGTON (AA) – A UN spokesman on Wednesday voiced concern over the surging death toll in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s war on the enclave continued for the 75th day. “The number has been unacceptable and huge and sheer and whatever adjective you want to use for quite some time,” Stephane Dujarric told reporters. “...
Doha, Qatar – AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday the Security Council was “paralysed by geostrategic divisions” in its efforts to end Israel’s war against Palestinians in Gaza. Addressing the Doha Forum, he said the body’s “authority and credibility were severely undermined” by it...
United Nations, United States – AFP The United States on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. Washington dashed a growing clamor for an immediate cease-fire that had been led by UN chief Antonio Guterres and Arab nations. American envoy Robert Wood said the resolution ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip is “part of the assault to end the Palestinian people as a nation,” Palestine’s UN envoy warned Friday. Riyad Mansour dismissed the notion that there is any doubt about Israel’s war aims, saying, “Are we supposed to pretend we don’t know t...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said “flames of war” should not be “re-ignited” in Gaza. Discussing the humanitarian pause in Gaza with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York on Tuesday, Wang said: “China has always firmly stood on the side of peace, human conscience, and international law in t...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Battles raged in Gaza on Saturday as Israel’s army said it expanded ground operations after intensifying its bombardment of the Palestinian territory three weeks after the deadliest attack in the country’s history. The United Nations warned of a looming “unprecedented avalanche of human suf...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Overnight Israeli strikes killed at least 80 people in Gaza and a UN aid agency warned it would have to stop work by the end of Wednesday. Alarm has grown about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in heavily bombarded Gaza where one doctor said he was forced to perform emergency surgery on the […]
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the war-torn and besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, said AFP correspondents on both sides. UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he was “confident that this delivery will be the start of a sustainable effor...
Rafah, Egypt – AFP Aid trucks waiting to cross from Egypt into Gaza are “a lifeline” which need to move into the war-torn Palestinian enclave as soon as possible, the UN chief said Friday. “These trucks are not just trucks, they are a lifeline. They are the difference between life and death for so many […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The UN secretary general has stressed the need to support Pakistan, which continues rebuilding in the wake of last year’s devastating floods, calling the country a “double victim” of “climate chaos” and “unjust” global financial system. “Pakistan is a double victim – of climate chaos, ...
