‘This Needs to Stop’: UN Envoy Condemns Israeli Military’s Advance on Syria
"What we are seeing is a violation of the disengagement agreement from 1974," said Geir Pedersen, the United Nations' special envoy to Syria. The United Nations'…
"What we are seeing is a violation of the disengagement agreement from 1974," said Geir Pedersen, the United Nations' special envoy to Syria. The United Nations'…
"She is on a shamelessness tour," journalist Jeremy Scahill said of American diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is facing backlash after…
"Let us all strive together to ensure that humanity is not destroyed by nuclear weapons, and to create a human society where there are no nuclear…
The General Assembly also voted 159-9 with 11 abstentions in favor of a resolution supporting UNRWA. Following yet another United States veto of a United Nations Security Council…
"The road to your arrest and The Hague won't be long either, you genocidal war criminal," one observer retorted. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Tuesday…
"If this process doesn't stop immediately, hundreds of thousands of people will become refugees, entire communities will be destroyed and the moral and legal stain of…
"The window of opportunity to deliver assistance is now, today, not tomorrow," said the deputy director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. A top…
Israeli airstrikes killed nearly a dozen people in southern Lebanon on Monday, heightening fears that a tenuous cease-fire agreement is on the verge of collapse. The…
"Such dehumanization cannot help but trigger our associations with scenes depicting the Nazis loading Jews into cattle cars." Much alarm has been raised over the so-called…
"The entire Palestinian population in north Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine, and violence." The heads of 15 humanitarian organizations operating under…
"Civilians and civilian structures... must always be protected in accordance with international humanitarian law," said the head of UNICEF. "Yet these principles are being flouted over…
"Restricting humanitarian access and at the same time dismantling UNRWA will add an additional layer of suffering to already unspeakable suffering," said the U.N. agency's commissioner-general.…