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Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Pierre Krähenbühl revealed that his agency is facing "the most serious financial crisis since its creation nearly 60 years ago"....
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The United States has supported Israel in rejecting a United Nations human rights investigation into the Gaza war, which has been described by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as...
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Israel has blocked a scheduled visit by the UN human rights rapporteur to the Palestinian territories for the second year in a row, a foreign ministry official revealed yesterday....
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Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Saeb Erekat said yesterday that he expected the UN fact-finding mission to condemn Israel's crimes, Al-Quds newspaper reported. Erekat said that the PA representative...
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Sources from the Freedom Flotilla Alliance revealed that around 100 EU parliamentarians have signed a petition calling for the end of the eight-year Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip,...
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The European boycott campaign against the Israeli settlements' agricultural products caused Israel's economy a loss $6 billion in the years 2013 and 2014. According to the data of the...
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The Palestinian unity government slammed an Israeli report on last summer's offensive on the Gaza Strip on Sunday, noting this would not change its stance regarding the demand of...
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Kuwait has donated US$15 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for its work with Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, UNRWA said in a statement...
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Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has publically mocked the International Criminal Court's judicial role saying the Hague-based body died long ago and the African Union Summit is its burial ceremony....
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Head of aid convoy Miles of Smiles Dr Isam Yousef has revealed sovereign Egyptian promises to open the Rafah border crossing for goods, Palestinian Al-Resalah newspaper reported on Sunday....
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has urged African Union member states to boycott goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West Bank by following the same labelling programme currently...
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Since the end of the Israel's offensive against the people of Gaza last summer, Hamas has spent a great deal of its energy on proving to human rights organisations...
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A high court in South Africa issued an interim order Sunday preventing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country. Al-Bashir is currently in South Africa attending the 25th...
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The International Criminal Court has called on South Africa to arrest the president of Sudan, amid media reports that he will attend an African Union summit in Johannesburg. ICC...
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A Sudanese diplomat revealed on Friday that Russia and China are supporting the demand for the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) to be withdrawn from the area, Quds...
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Russian news agency TASS reported on Friday that nuclear talks between Iran and the G5+1 world powers have "virtually stalled". The deadline for a final deal may have to...
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Qatar's foreign minister has insisted that the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi rebels is not finished until relevant UN Security Council resolutions take effect in Yemen. "The coalition will not...
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Nearly 1,037 civilians have been killed in Yemen between 26 March and 7 June, including 130 women and 234 children, and a further 3,227 others were injured, UN spokesman...
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UNRWA spokesman in Gaza Adnan Abu Hassana announced that the agency would be distributing $2 million to 556 families in Gaza. In an interview with Al-Quds local radio this...
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Syrian authorities asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to help it convert a nuclear facility and to move potentially dangerous nuclear material abroad, according to agency chief Yukiya Amano....
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Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company, is to relocate its factories and offices from an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, Arab48.com reported on Sunday. The company, which is...
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-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has overruled his colleagues' recommendations and removed Israel from a list of parties guilty of grave violations of children's rights, it was revealed Monday. The...
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In a recent gathering on the 65th anniversary of the founding of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continued to call for...
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Israeli government officials and representatives of the European Union have held meeting over the past few days to prevent the labelling of products made in the settlements, local radio...
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The UN-facilitated peace talks between Yemen's warring parties will resume next week in Geneva, the New York-based body has revealed. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the decisions by Yemen's exiled...
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June 6, 2015
Wessam Afifa
The Gaza Strip has been suffering worsening crises because of the nine-year long blockade, as well as the three Israeli wars that caused vast destruction to the enclave's infrastructure,...
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UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Makarim Wibisono has urged Israel not to implement its plans for the forcible transfer of Palestinian Bedouin communities in...
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President Obama took a step toward a tougher line with Israel in an interview released Tuesday, raising the possibility that the US will allow a United Nations vote on...
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Human Rights Watch urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to add Israel to its annual "List of Shame" of children's rights violators. Israel, said the rights organisation, should...
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On the 2nd of June 2015, we published a news item from Anadolu Agency titled "UNRWA warns services may cease within three months". In the item, we stated: UNRWA...
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June 5, 2015
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Asa Winstanley
Since Israel's new hard-right coalition government came to power last month, there have been two major bogey men: Iran and BDS, the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction...
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Interpol has identified 4,000 foreign fighters who joined jihadist groups in conflict areas, mainly Iran and Syria, Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds yesterday reported a senior figure saying. "In September 2014,...