Palestine

Investigations must be held into the actions of the Israeli security forces, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Saturday, calling for accountability and an end to impunity. Her appeal comes in the wake of the killing...

Thousands of Palestinians flocked to Jerusalem to pay their final respects to Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, killed two days earlier as she covered an army raid in the Israeli occupied West Bank at Ramallah. The violence that erupted...

The top UN official in the Middle East has urged Israel to halt all settlement activity following the latest approval given to new construction in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, announced on Thursday. “I condemn today's decision by Israeli authorities to...

Speakers in the Security Council on Tuesday denounced evictions and demolitions by Israeli authorities of Palestinian-owned properties, as the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, expressed regret that “little progress” has made by the sides in...

It was left to China, as monthly chair of the UN Security Council, to steer the 73 year-long Palestinian debate towards plain common sense. “The root cause of the deterioration,” - said Beijing’s Foreign Minister Wan Yi – “is that...

While discussing the recent incursion of Israeli troops in the Palestinian territories of Sur Bahir and Wadi Hummus in which Israeli troops destroyed a number of Palestinian homes, the Israeli delegation at the UN Security Council used its time to...

At a Security Council Open Debate on Peace in the Middle East, general support was expressed for a two-State solution. While the world awaits Trump’s inauguration, at the UNSC Israel blames Resolution 2334 for inciting terrorism. Italy affirms that Israeli...

As the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the Quartet report detailing the tensions in the Middle East, Israeli ambassador Danny Danon produces shocking new evidence that Hezbollah has a stockpile of missiles aiming at Israeli civilians in Southern...