ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN human rights chief has said that the Rohingya Muslim community have been hit hard by the ongoing battles between the ruling junta in Myanmar and the opposition groups. Rakhine State has been “particularly hard hit” since fighting restarted there last November, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk....
LONDON (AA) – Ireland supports investigation into alleged involvement of some UN staff in the October 7 attacks, but will not pause aid for Gaza. “Full confidence in @UNLazzarini’s (agency head Philippe Lazzarini) decision to immediately suspend @UNRWA staff suspected of participation in the heinous attacks of October 7, to i...
GAZA CITY(AA) – Hamas has condemned Israel’s campaign against UN institutions, calling it an effort to prevent them from providing relief to people in Gaza. “The latest is the hollow accusation against the World Health Organization of what Israel called collusion with the Hamas movement, by repeating the false claim about the movem...
LONDON (AA) – Ireland’s foreign minister has welcomed a ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, and said that his country expects Tel Aviv to implement the order. “I strongly welcome the Court’s orders which are final and binding. These are measures that Ireland has been consistently callin...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) — Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki has welcomed provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice on Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip. “We call on all states to ensure that all provisional measures ordered by the Court are implemented, including by Israel, the occupying power,” Al-Malik...
ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has jumped to 25,700, the Health Ministry in the blockaded enclave said on Wednesday. The ministry in a statement said 63,740 others have also been injured. Israeli forces committed 24 massacres across the Gaza Strip in the past […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The UN humanitarian office warned Tuesday that the Gaza Strip will “bleed to death” because of the denial of humanitarian access to the Palestinian enclave. ”The recurrent denial of access of humanitarian teams to northern Gaza is preventing the needed scale-up of life-saving operations,” Olga Cherevko, ...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – President of UN General Assembly Dennis Francis renewed his call for a cease-fire in Gaza, where Israeli bombardment since October 7 has killed more than 24,000 people, left the territory in ruins, and caused a humanitarian catastrophe. Addressing the 19th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Kampala, the capital o...
GENEVA (AA) – The head of UN human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territories has urged Israel to prevent the recurrence of “ill-treatment and humiliation” of Palestinians detained in Gaza, saying he met several released detainees who had been beaten and blindfolded and been held for weeks. “During my time he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and his Cabinet ministers have signed special postcards addressed to the UN chief, urging the world body to recognize Palestinian nationhood. “This special postcard is to express the wishes of the people of Malaysia by urging the UN to accept Palestine as a member state and demanding [&hel...
