Courtenay Rattray, chef de cabinet of the UN secretary-general, speaks at the Security Council debate on Gaza, on behalf of the UN chief at the UN headquarters in New York, on July 17, 2024. (Manuel Elias/UN Photo/Handout via Xinhua) UNITED NATIONS, July 17 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that civilian deaths in Gaza are "unparalleled and unprecedented," adding that the number of children killed in a matter of weeks is the highest in his years as a secretary-general. On November 22, Israel's cabinet approv...
Feb. 29, 2024. The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk emphasized on Thursday the deteriorating human rights situation in Gaza, urging an end to the conflicts there. "At least 17,000 children
It has been dominated by the war in Gaza, which began just two weeks after leaders left New York following last year's assembly when Palestinian Hamas militants killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages in a cross-border rampage into Israel, according to Israe...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief said Wednesday that one-quarter of humanity -- two billion people -- are living in conflict areas today and the world is facing the highest number of violent conflicts since 1945 when World War II ended.
GAZA, March 21 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning in his second visit since Israel ended its military operation in the coastal enclave. Ban will inspect areas destroyed during Israel's 22-day operation Cast Lead which ended on Jan. ...
Famine 'imminent' in northern Gaza The situation is most serous in northern Gaza, which remains cut off by the Israeli military. About 300,000 people are believed to have ignored Israel's earlier evacuation order and ...
More than a year into the war which was sparked by Hamas's massacre in southern Israel on 7 October last year, the population in Gaza is in a "disastrous situation", said the UN under-secretary-general for peace operations.
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French permanent representative to the United Nations Nicolas de Riviere said the UN chief was correct to raise the alarm over the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Gaza. "It is for this reason that France voted in favor of this resolution and it is for that reason that we plead for an imme...