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The US vetoed Palestine’s application for full membership in the UN on Thursday. The veto came as the UN Security Council considered a resolution put forward by Algeria that would have granted Palestine full UN membership. The resolution received 12 votes in favor, more than the required 9, but the US used its veto to [...]

Russia and China vetoed a US-authored UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution Friday that called for a ceasefire in Gaza. The exact text of the UNSC Resolution is not currently available to the public; however, UN News provided a summary of its content. According to UN News, the resolution called the need for an immediate and [...]

Palestine Permanent Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour criticized the US at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday for its repeated “misuse of veto power” against a ceasefire in Gaza. Mansour stated that Israel has been committing “genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid” against Palestinians for decades, and the reason why such crimes occurred is because [...]

An Italian judge ruled on Tuesday that two UN agency employees cannot be tried over the deaths of an Italian ambassador, his bodyguard and a driver in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to Rome daily newspaper Fatto Quotidiano. During a preliminary hearing, Judge Marisa Mosetti found that the UN agency employees have diplomatic [...]

The UN Security Council passed a UAE-sponsored resolution by a 13-0 vote Friday calling for an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza, with both the US and Russia abstaining. The resolution reportedly called for “steps toward a sustainable cessation of hostilities” in the ongoing Israel-Hamas War instead of an immediate ceasefire. The Security Council urged [...]

On November 15, 2023, more than five weeks after Hamas‘ heinous October 7 attack on Israel, and after thousands of lives were lost, the Security Council, the United Nations body with the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, finally managed to pass a somewhat controversial resolution in response to the crisis. [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a statement Tuesday condemning the record death toll of 53 journalists and members of the press during the Israel-Hamas War. CPJ has documented journalist deaths that have occured since October 7, when Hamas launched an attack on Israel followed by Israel declaring war on Hamas. The organization added [...]

The United Nations General Assembly called the tenth Emergency Special Session on Friday to discuss the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce.” This is the UN’s first formal response to the conflict after the Security Council failed on four occasions to reach a consensus. This resolution, [...]

The Tehran Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced two female journalists who covered the Mahsa Amini protests in 2022 to prison Sunday, according to Mizan News Agency, the judiciary’s media agency. The journalists, Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, were charged with collaboration with the US government as well as acting against national security. Mohammadi received six [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ),  Reporters Without Borders (RSF)  and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) released statements Monday alleging that the death toll among journalists since Israel and Hamas began hostilities has climbed to between 10 and 12, with several missing and 20 injured. It is difficult to confirm the exact number of killed [...]