Thu 1-May-2025

UN

UN Middle East Coordinator arrives in blockaded Gaza

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov arrived in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning.

PA urges UN to penalize Israeli banks funding settlements

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Tuesday called on the United Nations and other international institutions to impose sanctions on Israeli banks for providing financial facilities to illegal settlement construction.

PA asks UN to end Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands

Representative of the Palestinian Authority (PA) at the United Nations (UN) Riyad Mansour on Saturday asked the international community to take all of the necessary measures needed for ending the Israeli occupation in the Palestinian territories.

Memo to UNSC over tragic fallouts of Israeli siege on Gaza

A memorandum was handed over to the UN Security Council (UNSC) by the International Commission to Support the Rights of the Palestinian People (Hashd) to push for lifting the Israeli siege on Gaza.

Gazans sound distress signals over upshots of Israeli blockade

A rally was staged in Gaza on Tuesday in protest at the apathy maintained by the international community as regards the tough Israeli siege.

Netanyahu threatens to kick UN out of Israel over anti-settlement bid

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed on Saturday the Foreign Ministry to complete a re-evaluation of all contacts with the United Nations including the Israeli funding of U.N. institutions and the presence of U.N. representatives in Israel.

Jerusalemite Commission: UNSC decision historic

Scholars and Preachers Commission in occupied Jerusalem welcomed the UN Security Council’s decision against Israeli settlements building in Palestine and describing them as illegal.

Hamas: UNSC resolution must be enforced

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas called for practical implementation of the UN Security Council's resolution asking Israel to stop building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Egypt withdraws UNSC resolution against Israeli settlement activity

Egypt withdrew on Friday a draft resolution submitted to the UN Security Council against the Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories while each of Senegal Venezuela Malaysia and New Zealand adopted it and asked for a vote later in the evening.

4 UNSC members issue ultimatum as Egypt succumbs to pressure

Four countries reportedly issued Egypt with an ultimatum threatening to bring forward a UN Security Council resolution demanding a halt to Israel’s illegal settlement activity if Cairo does not reintroduce the draft.