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EU Silence on Gaza “Equalled Complicity” | Evin Incir
Evin Incir, Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament’s Rapporteur for relations with the Palestinian Authority, argues that Israel’s stated objective of eliminating Hamas is contradic...
“The Silence of the European Union Equals Complicity” in occupied Palestine | Evin Incir
Evin Incir, MEP, European Parliament’s Rapporteur for relations with the Palestinian Authority, argues that the EU’s approach to Israel and Palestine is marked by inconsistency between its stated c...
Gaza’s Children Under Fire: UNICEF on the Human Toll of the Conflict
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder highlights the impact of the Gaza conflict on children, noting that “since the ceasefire was announced in October last year, 265 Palestinian...
Israeli settlers “resorted to sexual violence to instill fear & humiliate Palestinians” | UN report
The Chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Mr. Srinivasan Muralidhar, speaking at the 62nd session of the Human Rights Council on 15 ...
UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Irene Khan addressed on 18 June 2026 the dangers faced in conflict zones, emphasizing Gaza as...
Alys Samson Estapé speaking at the 2026 UN Palestine Committee engagement with European Civil Society Organizations in Brussels on 6 May 2026, conveyed “a clear message from Spanish civil society” ...
Agnès Bertrand-Sanz of Oxfam Brussels argues that the central driver of the humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine is “impunity,” describing it as “a structural condition” and “a predictable pattern...
Commemorating the 78th anniversary of the Nakba at UN Headquarters in New York, UN Palestine Committee Chairman reflects on “the catastrophe of dispossession, exile and loss” endured by the Palesti...
On 15 May 2026, the UN Palestinian Rights Committee convened an event marking the anniversary of the Nakba to continue drawing attention to this tragic historical event and the enduring plight of t...
Claudio Francavilla of Human Rights Watch outlines the European Union’s political and legal obligations in response to atrocities in Gaza and the wider Occupied Palestinian Territory. He argues tha...
On 6 May 2026, the UN Palestinian Rights Committee held consultations with European civil society organizations in Brussels, Belgium, against the backdrop of growing public mobilization across Euro...
On 7 May 2026, the delegation of UN Palestinian Rights Committee held a press conference organized by the United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC) in Brussels, during w...
Francesca Albanese warns that the world faces a defining test: either the prohibitions against genocide and torture are upheld through real accountability, including for Israel’s leaders and those ...
During the UN Security Council open debate (28 April 2026) Ambassador Umar Hadi, Vice-Chair of the UN Palestine Committee, warns that the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is moving t...
In this statement, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif (24 March 2026) says that Israeli settlers carried out more than 1,700 violent incidents against Palestinians across t...
Sofia Calltorp, Chief of Humanitarian Action at UN Women in Geneva, stated on 17 April 2026 that a new analysis was showing how the war had affected women and girls in Gaza. Six months after the ce...
“This war has reshaped families. Tens of thousands of households are now headed by women,” UN Women’s Sofia Calltorp, Chief of Humanitarian Action, told journalists in Geneva. “Having lost their hu...
Francesca Albanese says the Palestinian people today are suffering whether in detention, under bombardment in Gaza, "terrorized by armed criminals in uniform, or settler squads" in the West Bank an...
On 24 March 2026, addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Francesca Albanese frames the statement as both a moral indictment and an appeal for urgent action. She rejects attempts to recast t...
The war in Gaza has inflicted a far higher toll on women and girls than in previous conflicts in the Palestinian enclave, with more than 38,000 killed by Israeli air bombardment and land military o...