Martin said that the trip is part of “intensive efforts to address the crisis in the Middle East”.
More than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million have sought refuge in Rafah
The Ministry of State for Natural Disaster Management of the caretaker government has announced that the death toll from recent floods in the country has risen to 66 in recent days. The statement said on Tuesday that 66 people have lost their lives due to recent floods, and 36 others have been injured. According to […]
Prospective migrants trying to reach the UK from France say smuggling operations are continuing after Tuesday's tragedy.
The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, expressed her regret and ‘condemnation for her inability to conduct a field visit to the Gaza Strip’ after Israel rejected her visit. While Albanese is on a regional tour that includes Jordan and Egypt, the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, welcomed her at the General Secretariat headquarters on 21 April. The meeting, attended by Egypt’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Sameh...
The UN’s human rights chief has said he is “horrified” by the destruction of Gaza’s Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals and the reports of “mass graves” being found at the sites after Israeli raids. Volker Türk called for independent investigations into the deaths. Palestinian officials said they had exhumed the bodies of almost 300 people at […]
Palestinian officials say more than 300 bodies have been found at Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals.
A quarterly UN report on the situation in Haiti has logged a 50% increase in deaths in the country. Long plagued by gangs, several of them recently allied to target the unelected government and police more directly.
Israel's military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip has killed at
Spokesperson says some bodies allegedly had their hands tied while others were bound and strippedThe UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, has said he was “horrified” by reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies at two of Gaza’s largest hospitals.Palestinian civil defence teams began exhuming bodies from a mass grave outside the Nasser hospital complex in Khan Younis last week after Israeli troops withdrew. A total of 310 bodies have been found in the last week, including 35 in the past...
Shafaqna English- The United Nations human rights chief is “horrified” by the destruction of Nasser Medical Complex and al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza and reports of mass graves found in, and calls for independent and transparent inquiry after Palestinian authorities uncover hundreds of bodies at hospital. In a statement released
The Chinese and Indonesian foreign ministers called for an immediate and lasting cease-fire in Gaza after a meeting in Jakarta Thursday. Indonesia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi told reporters that the two countries share the same view about the importance of a cease-fire and of resolving the conflict through a two-state solution. (AP Video/Andi Jatmiko)