News headlines for “Middle East”, page 42
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.
Western Powers Are Complicit in Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza
- Inter Press Service

NEW YORK, July 28 (IPS) - The West, led by the Trump administration, has enabled the Netanyahu government to commit crimes against humanity and became complicit in the unfathomably horrific disaster that is being inflicted on the Palestinians in Gaza
UN warns of ‘catastrophic hunger’ in Gaza as Israel announces humanitarian pauses
- UN News

United Nations agencies welcomed on Sunday Israel’s pledge to implement daily humanitarian pauses in its military operations in Gaza, aimed at easing the flow of desperately needed aid into and across the devastated enclave.

