Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur, called Gaza the "largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st Century." "Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time...
Over 1.5 million Gazans are packed into Rafah, having nowhere else to go. Escalated Israeli military incursions into Rafah will result in unthinkable civilian casualties and humanitarian disasters and cause irreparable damage to regional peace. China strongly opposes such actions. Israel should immediat...
Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur, called Gaza the "largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st Century." "Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the ti...
Earlier in the day at the U.N., the United States vetoed a resolution that would have condemned violence against civilians in the Israel-Hamas war and pushed for humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said President Joe Biden was in the region engagi...
However, the United States once again openly stands opposite to international morality, and to the international community, leaving one more very dishonorable record in history, the Chinese foreign minister noted. A full UN membership for Palestine should not come as a result of Israel-Palestine neg...
Lebanon is a country of about 5.3 million people just to the north of Israel. The two nations have fought multiple wars. When the state of Israel was established in 1948, more than 100,000 Palestinian refugees fled to Lebanon. UNRWA, the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians,saysthere ...
The West Bank and the Gaza Strip came under Israeli occupation in 1967. Both territories had been under constant Israeli control since then, until Israel d
As the coronavirus crisis sweeps Israel, with 945 total cases reported in the country as of Sunday morning, there is still some happy news to add to the mix. Israel came in 14th in the latest annualUnited Nations World Happiness Report for 2020published on Friday. ...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday told United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Israel has been "the stabilizing force" in recent conflicts with Palestine, according to the prime minister's office. Bennett's remarks came after weeks of tension in Je...
Much of Israel's firepower has been directed at Hezbollah's longtime strongholds in Beirut's southern suburbs and across the south of Lebanon. Major Israeli ground operations in the south have alsoput United Nations peacekeepers in the line of fire. But airstrikes have also pummelled Lebanon's ...