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The Israeli government has unanimously rejected a recommendation adopted last week by the UN General Assembly calling for greater rights within the assembly for Palestine. "We will not reward the terrible massacre of October 7," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday following his cabinet's decision to reject the resolution. "We will not allow them to establish a terrorist state from which they will be able to vigorously attack us," he added. Neither the General Assembly nor any other organization can prevent Israel from exercising its right to self-defence, Netanyahu said. On Fri...
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The UN Security Council on Friday called for an investigation into mass graves discovered near health facilities in the Gaza Strip. Graves containing several hundred bodies were found near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in recent weeks. Last month the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, which cited the Palestinian civil defence, said some bodies had bound hands. Hospitals and other medical establishments are entitled special protections under international humanitarian law. The Israeli side has said accusations that Israeli forces had...
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The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in New York on Friday in favour of a resolution to enhance the status of the Palestinians at the world body, including full membership for Palestine. A clear majority of 143 member states voted in favour, with nine against and 25 abstentions. The General Assembly has 193 member states. The resolution grants the Palestinians more participation rights and privileges within the General Assembly, where debates take place and no member wields veto power. It also called upon the UN Security Council to "favourably" consider full UN membership for Palestine...
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The United States will again block attempts to grant Palestinians increased rights in the United Nations General Assembly despite expectations of a large majority in favour in a vote to be taken in New York on Friday. Nate Evans, spokesman for the US Mission to the UN, indicated that the US would again use its veto as it last did on April 18. Palestine currently holds only "observer" status at the world body. "Should the General Assembly adopt this resolution and refer the Palestinian membership application back to the Security Council, we expect a similar outcome to what occurred in April," h...
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The United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to vote on Friday on granting Palestinians greater representation and participation rights in the UN's largest body. The draft resolution grants Palestine significantly extended rights to participate in the sessions of the General Assembly, but does not give it regular voting rights. Adoption of the resolution would also likely increase pressure to grant Palestine full membership. The UN General Assembly recognized Palestine as an observer state in 2012 despite resistance from the United States. Palestine and the Vatican are the only two non-mem...
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Turkey is joining South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan made the announcement in Ankara on Wednesday. He said the legal details of taking part in the lawsuit were still be worked out. At the end of December, South Africa took Israel to the top UN court in The Hague for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention. South Africa contends that Israel is committing "systematic" acts of genocide in Gaza, citing examples of military violence and st...
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Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year - the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened - heightening growing fears of famine and "widespread death" from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies warned on Wednesday. According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises, more than one in five people in 59 countries faced acute food insecurity in 2023, compared with around just one in 10 in 48 countries in 2016. "When we talk about acute food insecurity, we are talking about hunger so severe that it poses an immediate threat to people's livel...
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A fourth and penultimate round of talks on a United Nations treaty to combat plastic pollution will begin in the Canadian capital Ottawa on Tuesday. Representatives from more than 170 countries are expected to attend the negotiations, which are scheduled to run until next Monday. "This negotiation is pivotal," said UN Environment Programme official Jyoti Mathur-Filipp. "It is an opportunity to make significant progress for a robust agreement that would allow future generations to live in a world free of plastic pollution." Pressure is rising on delegates to reach a draft agreement ahead of the...
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The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank wants to reconsider its bilateral relations with the United States following Washington's veto in the United Nations Security Council of full UN membership for Palestine. "The United States has violated all international laws and disregarded all promises regarding the two-state solution and achieving peace in the region," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the official Palestinian news agency WAFA on Saturday. The US must recognize that the region will not stabilize without a just solution to the Palestinian question issue, Abbas continued. "We...
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German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke plans to travel to Ottawa on Saturday for UN talks on a global plastic pollution treaty, her ministry announced in Berlin on Tuesday. On Sunday, Lemke is to hold talks with her Canadian counterpart Steven Guilbeault ahead of the fourth session of the UN's intergovernmental negotiating committee on the issue. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to open the conference on Monday. The UN talks are aimed at a fresh attempt at a legally binding international treaty on reducing plastic waste, including in the marine environment, to be agreed by the end o...
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