News headlines for “Middle East”, page 42
UN chief urges world leaders to keep two-State solution ‘alive’
- UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to revive efforts toward a two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that there is no alternative.
In Gaza, daily food intake has fallen well below ‘survival’ level
- UN News
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians “vulnerable to starvation”, with daily energy intake now well below what a human body needs to survive, the UN warned on Thursday.
US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding permanent ceasefire in Gaza
- UN News
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto – blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Ambassadors to vote on new ceasefire resolution
- UN News
After weeks of negotiations, the Council’s ten elected members have initiated a new draft resolution on Gaza as the humanitarian crisis deepens by the day. It calls for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire, the unconditional release of hostages held by Hamas and others and the immediate lifting of all aid restrictions. We’re joining live coverage from our Meetings Coverage Section and UN News app users can follow here.
Gaza: UN relief chief welcomes growing support for aid teams to resume vital work
- UN News
Amid reports of yet another deadly attack on a school in Gaza on Wednesday, the UN’s top aid official Tom Fletcher welcomed growing international calls for lifesaving aid work by established agencies to resume in the war-torn enclave.
Gaza: UN rights chief condemns new killings around private aid hub
- UN News
UN human rights chief Volker Türk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday “trying to access paltry amounts of food” around a private aid hub in the south of the enclave run by the US and Israel.
UN calls for ‘immediate and unconditional’ release of aid workers arbitrarily detained in Yemen
- UN News
As June marks one year since the arbitrary detention of dozens of personnel from the UN, NGOs, civil society organizations and diplomatic missions by the Houthi de facto authorities in Yemen, the UN Secretary-General has reiterated his call for their release, urging they be freed “immediately and unconditionally.”
Gaza: Guterres urges probe into killings at food distribution sites
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General has called for an investigation into the killing and injury of Palestinians seeking food aid in Gaza on Sunday.
Lifting of Israeli blockade ‘the only way to avert mass starvation’ in Gaza: UNRWA chief
- UN News
Amid disputed reports of Israeli forces firing on civilians near a new privatised aid distribution point in southern Gaza, the head of the Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, said on Sunday that lifting the months-long aid blockade of the enclave is the only way to avoid “mass starvation”.
Helpless in the face of hunger: Gaza families pray for deliverance – or death
- UN News
“I stood helpless in the face of my son's hunger. I cried a lot and told him to drink from our little water to satisfy his hunger,” said Zeenat, a young Palestinian woman speaking to UN News from the battered Gaza Strip.
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