Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Flags flew at half-mast at United Nations compounds across the globe on Monday, as staff observed a minute’s silence in memory of colleagues killed in Gaza by Israel’s indiscriminate bombing on hospitals, schools, UN shelters and other facilities. The blue and white UN flag was lowered at 9:30 am loc...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN humanitarian office said on Friday that they cannot deliver aid trucks to the north of Gaza. “If there is a hell on earth, it is the north of Gaza,” Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told the weekly press briefing in Geneva. Laerke […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The head of the UN has said that killing of thousands of children in the Gaza Strip shows that there is “something clearly wrong in the way that military operations are being done.” “Every year, the highest number of killing of children by any of the actors in all the conflicts that […]
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...
Geneva, Switzerland – AFP The situation in the West Bank has become “alarming and urgent”, the United Nations has said, citing in particular an escalation of violence by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians. From October 7 to Thursday, 132 Palestinians, including 41 children, had been killed in the West Bank, the UN rights o...
GENEVA (AA) – The cost of meeting the needs of 2.7 million people in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank is estimated to be $1.2 billion, the UN humanitarian affairs office has said. Spokesperson Jens Laerke told a UN press briefing in Geneva that the agency will update its flash appeal accordingly on Monday, […]
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP The UN has voiced concern as Israel began sending back to Gaza thousands of Palestinian workers who had been stuck in Israel since the start of the attacks on Gaza. The workers may not have homes to return to and face grave dangers from ongoing military clashes in the territory, UN […]
United Nations, NEW YORK – AFP The United Nations has launched a $1.2 billion aid appeal to help Gaza and West Bank residents devastated by Israel attacks. It had previously appealed for $294 million. “The situation has grown increasingly desperate since then,” said Jens Laerke, OCHA spokesperson. The updated flash appeal wil...
BERLIN (AA) – Israel has criticized Germany for not rejecting a UN resolution which called for an urgent humanitarian truce in Gaza. Israel’s ambassador to Berlin, Ron Prosor, said Germany’s decision last week to abstain in the UN General Assembly vote was “more than disappointing” for his country. “Friday’s abstention is morally w...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistan has reiterated its commitment to removing illegal immigrants as a deadline approaches, emphasizing that its actions align with international norms. The decision to repatriate “illegal foreigners,” said the nation’s Foreign Ministry, “is in exercise of Pakistan’s sovereign domestic laws, and compliant ...
