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Security Council: Middle East envoy warns against escalation, highlights continued Israeli settlement activity
- UN News
The UN envoy supporting peace efforts between Israelis and Palestinians voiced grave concern over the growing risk of widescale regional escalation during a briefing to the Security Council in New York on Wednesday.
Russian attacks on Ukraine energy set to push 500,000 people out of country
- UN News
Repeated Russian attacks on energy infrastructure and power cuts in Ukraine will likely uproot an additional 500,000 people ahead of the coming winter, UN human rights monitors said on Thursday.
Sudan: UN urges immediate action to stop fighting in El Fasher
- UN News
A sharp escalation in fighting in Sudan’s El Fasher, along with ongoing clashes between rival military factions across the country, is heightening the risk of atrocities, including violence against women, and worsening the already dire humanitarian crisis, senior UN officials warned on Wednesday.
UN General Assembly demands Israel end ‘unlawful presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory
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The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that demands that Israel “brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Afghanistan: UN warns of growing crisis under increasingly authoritarian Taliban rule
- UN News
Concerns for women and the overall state of humanitarian rights in Afghanistan are growing following further legal clampdowns by the Taliban, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday.
UN appeals for restraint after further devices explode across Lebanon
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an end to the escalation in violence in the Middle East amid reports of a fresh wave of electronic device detonations in Lebanon which caused further deaths and injuries.
Top UN official appeals for calm following wave of attacks in Lebanon
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The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, has called for calm following attacks across the country on Tuesday which killed at least nine people, including children, and left thousands injured - many critically.
LIVE: General Assembly resumes emergency special session on Palestine
- UN News
The General Assembly will resume a rare emergency special session at 10am on Tuesday in New York on the issue of Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory with Palestine expected to introduce a draft resolution that would, among other things, demand an end to the occupation within one year. UN News app users can follow live here.
How aid is (and is not) getting into Gaza
- UN News
A relentless siege, deadly targeted attacks and chronic restrictions on lifesaving aid deliveries into the war-torn Gaza Strip by Israeli forces: that’s just some of what aid workers are grappling with as they try to provide the level of lifesaving assistance needed to stave off widespread famine and epidemics in the strip.
More action on the ground needed to save civilian lives in Gaza, top UN official tells Security Council
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Not enough progress is being made in getting desperately needed aid and commercial goods into Gaza, the UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for the Strip said in a briefing to the Security Council on Monday.
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