News headlines for “Middle East”, page 31
LIVE COVERAGE: Day 3 of high-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine
- UN News
Welcome to our live coverage of the third day of high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aimed at advancing practical steps toward achieving a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Mandated by the General Assembly meeting features plenaries, working groups and interventions from senior UN officials and Member States. UN News app users can follow here.
American Inhumanity on Full Display to the World
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, USA, July 30 (IPS) - Why is a grinning Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister, wildly cheered by both Democrats and Republicans whenever he addresses the US Congress, while at the same time in Gaza countless innocent civilians are being killed by American bombs and bullets—and now babies are starving?
LIVE COVERAGE: Day 2 of high-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine
- UN News
Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aimed at advancing practical steps toward achieving a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Mandated by the General Assembly, the three-day meeting features plenaries, working groups and interventions from senior UN officials and Member States. UN News app users can follow here.
In Gaza, mounting evidence of famine and widespread starvation
- UN News
The people of Gaza are now in the grip of famine, UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, with unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the near-total collapse of essential services pushing the war-battered enclave to a deadly tipping point.
When the System Protects Itself, Not People
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, July 29 (IPS) - In Geneva, nearly 600 UN staff based at the UN Office there held an Extraordinary Staff Union meeting on July 24, 2025, passing a unanimous motion of no confidence in the UN80 reform initiative, the Secretary General António Guterres, and Under Secretary General Guy Ryder—with no abstentions and no dissenting voices (source).
Syria: Fragile ceasefire in Sweida ‘largely holding’ amid volatility
- UN News
A fragile de-escalation in Syria’s Sweida region is “largely holding” after weeks of violence displaced 175,000 people, killed hundreds and devastated critical infrastructure – exposing deep fissures in the country’s political transition.
UN chief: Israeli-Palestinian conflict at ‘breaking point,’ urges push for two-State solution
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday warned that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “at a breaking point” and headed toward a one-State reality marked by perpetual occupation and inequality, unless the international community takes urgent, irreversible steps to implement the two-State solution.
LIVE COVERAGE: High-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine
- UN News
Welcome to our live coverage of the high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aimed at advancing practical steps toward achieving a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Mandated by the General Assembly, the three-day meeting features plenaries, working groups and interventions from senior UN officials and Member States. UN News App users can follow here.
While Gaza ceasefire remains elusive, UN readies for Conference around Israel-Palestine two-State solution
- UN News
A world in which a sovereign State of Palestine and Israel co-exist peacefully seems a distant prospect, particularly in light of the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel, and the subsequent Israeli bombardment of Gaza. A high-level UN conference opening on 28 July will, nevertheless, serve as the latest UN-backed attempt to find a way to end the conflict.
Amid starvation in Gaza, Sudan, Guterres slams hunger ‘as a weapon of war’
- UN News
As starvation worsens in war-torn Gaza, UN agencies repeated warnings on Monday that Israel’s decision to support a “one-week scale-up” of aid is far from enough to reverse deadly malnutrition rates in the enclave.
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