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New York: The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a health and socio-economic emergency across the occupied Palestinian territory, the UN agency for the region warned on Friday, noting a swell of coronavirus cases in recent weeks. more
UN officials call for release of detained Palestinian children amid pandemic

New York : Three senior United Nations officials in the Middle East are calling for the release of Palestinian children from Israeli-run prisons and detentions centres, saying they are at ...

Common coronavirus enemy, forges some Palestine-Israel cooperation, but West Bank annexation looms

New York : The COVID-19 pandemic is creating opportunities for cooperation that Israelis and Palestinians must embrace to sustain Middle East peace efforts and bring an end to decades of ...

Israeli army detains 27 Palestinian popular front activists

Gaza (Sputnik/UNI) The Israeli army has detained 27 activists of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the occupied West Bank, a member of the group’s central committ ...

UN chief praises impact of Palestine refugee agency as ‘our common success’, at key pledging conference

New York, June 26 (JEN): The work of the UN body responsible for assisting Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which has allowed millions of children to receive an education that promotes UN value ...

Palestine refugees' relief chief warns Security Council money to fund Gaza operations will run out in mid-June

New York: The head of the UN relief and works agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) warned on Wednesday that despite weathering a “truly existential crisis” over funding last ...

UN expert denounces killing of more Palestinian protesters, as ‘affront to human rights’

New York,  As protests continue at the Gaza border fence against Israeli policies, so does the killing and wounding of Palestinian protesters, including children, by the Israeli secu ...

UN urges countries to step up assistance for Palestine refugees

New York,  The United Nations said it regrets the decision of the United States to stop funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and ...

Palestinian Bedouin community faces demolition after Israeli court ruling, warns UN rights office

New York: A Palestinian Bedouin community is under threat from a demolition order within days, to make way for Israeli settlement expansion, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned on T ...

‘Bleakest period yet’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory: UN human rights expert

New York: Reports of the indignities faced by people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory have “painted the bleakest picture yet” of the human rights situation there, a Unite ...