Statement by the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 1 July 2026. The United Nations and NGOs warn that the continued expansion of areas under Israeli control in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement in October 2025 is intensifying risks … Continue reading →
Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide and atrocity crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank, according to a report issued on 23 June 2026 by the UN Independent … Continue reading →
27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day. On this day we remember the six million Jewish people who were murdered under the Nazi regime. But we also remember the millions of innocent people who have been and are still being killed in … Continue reading →
On 28 July a two-day meeting began at UN Headquarters in New York co-chaired by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of France and Saudi Arabia to discuss the two-state solution. History of Arab-Jewish conflict Conflict between Arabs and Jews originated … Continue reading →
At the time of writing, 147 of the 193 member states of the United Nations have recognised Palestine as a sovereign state. So far none of seven states with the largest advanced economies (G7) have done so. On 24 July … Continue reading →
On 21 July 2025 28 countries and an international partner issued the following joint statement on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. We, the signatories listed below, come together with a simple, urgent message: the war in Gaza must end now. The … Continue reading →
The Letter On 16 May 2025, 310 staff of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) wrote to the UK Foreign Secretary in a letter marked OFFICIAL SENSITIVE saying, among other things: In July 2024, staff expressed concern about … Continue reading →
27 May 2025 Chaos ensued when the first of the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) aid distribution site opened in the in the Tal al-Sultan area of the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The UN Human Rights Office has said … Continue reading →
The following open letter was published on 26 May 2025 signed by more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges. The full list of the signatories can be found here. The text of the letter and footnotes but excluding the … Continue reading →
This conference was cancelled. See this page for more details. An International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two State Solution will be held in New York on June 17-20, 2025. … Continue reading →