UN

Euro-Med calls for UN intervention to end Aqsa Mosque closure

Sunday-16-July-2017

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor submitted on Saturday a letter to the UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief calling for urgent intervention to end Israel’s closure of the Aqsa Mosque compound.

UN slammed for not punishing Israel for war crimes

Friday-7-July-2017

The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights criticized on Friday the UN's failure to impose sanctions on Israel three years after its last military aggression against the Gaza Strip in 2014.

UN coordinator Japanese ambassador pop in blockaded Gaza

Monday-3-July-2017

The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov and the Japanese ambassador for Palestinian Affairs Takeshi Okubo arrived in Gaza via Beit Hanun (Erez) border crossing at noontime Monday.

In defiance of UN Israel legalizes settlement on Palestinian land

Sunday-2-July-2017

Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit approved the use of a special 1967 order to legalize settlement buildings on private Palestinian land the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Sunday.

PRC addresses UN bodies over tragic situation in blockaded Gaza

Friday-30-June-2017

The London-based Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) on Thursday called on UN-run bodies to take urgent action vis-à-vis the calamitous state of affairs in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Palestinian calls for obliging IOA to cooperate with UN missions

Saturday-24-June-2017

The Council of Palestinian Human Rights Organizations called on international community to oblige Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) to cooperate with the United Nations committees and missions including the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 Stanley Michael Lynk.

UN envoy: Israeli settlement activity flouting UN resolution

Wednesday-21-June-2017

Israel is flouting a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding a halt to settlement building on occupied Palestinian land a senior UN envoy said on Tuesday.

PRC Addresses UNHRC over Human Rights Violations in OPt

Tuesday-20-June-2017

Head of the Palestinian Return Center Majed al-Zeer addressed on Monday the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) over the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPt).

PRC speaks up for prisoners’ cause at UN Human Rights Council

Tuesday-20-June-2017

The London-based Palestinian Return Center (PRC) raised the alarm over the Palestinian prisoners’ cause at the 35th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva.

UN: 19 children among 63 Palestinians unlawfully killed by Israel

Friday-16-June-2017

The United Nations Economic and Social Council which accused Israel of being an “apartheid regime” and of racially dominating the Palestinians has authored a new document slamming the occupying entity for torturing Palestinians and carrying out extra-judicial executions.