HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has warned about inhuman and deadly living conditions in northern Gaza and said Palestinians are “starving while the world watches on.” “For the past month, North Gaza has been under a near-total brutal siege,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a news conference, conveying a...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has expressed concern over the worsening food situation in Sudan. “Almost 26 million men, women and children are acutely hungry – to give you an example, that is equivalent to the entire population of Australia,” Dujarric told reporters. “Of those 26 million, 750,000 people are...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern over the situation in the Gaza Strip, saying “nowhere is safe” in the besieged enclave. “The extreme level of fighting and devastation in Gaza is incomprehensible and inexcusable…Everywhere is a potential killing zone,” Guterres sa...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Hezbollah launched more than 200 rockets at Israeli military positions on Thursday as Israel continued its attacks in Gaza. The Iran-backed resistance group said its latest attack, which followed the launch of over 100 small rockets the previous day, came in response to Israel’s killing of a senior Hezbollah c...
United Nations, United States – AFP A UN team visiting a Gaza hospital Friday reported seeing “a large number of gunshot wounds” among dozens of Palestinians being treated after Israeli troops opened fire at a food aid point. UN staff, the first to visit Gaza’s north in more than a week, spent just over two […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Friday voiced concern over Israeli premier’s plan for civilian evacuation from Rafah in southern Gaza. “We are extremely worried about the fate of civilians in Rafah,” Dujarric told reporters in New York. His remarks came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Khost, Afghanistan – AFP Zubaida travelled from the rural outskirts of Khost in eastern Afghanistan to give birth at a maternity hospital specializing in complicated cases, fearing a fate all too common among pregnant Afghan women — her death or her child’s. She lay dazed, surrounded by the unfamiliar bustle of the Doctors Wi...
NEW YORK (AA) – The UN has said that it is “very concerned” over a report suggesting that Israel used US-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an attack in southern Lebanon. Asked by the media about the report by The Washington Post, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said he does not have any information to confirm. “W...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN has demanded respect for the Gaza Strip’s territorial integrity as Israel continues to carry out strikes against the Palestinian enclave. “The integrity of Gaza needs to be respected. It is clear right now that no place in Gaza is safe,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at a news conference on [&he...