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25.11.2025 - 21:31 [ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) ]

UN experts urge States to act as Israeli violations threaten fragile Gaza ceasefire

The experts urged Member States to act decisively to end the pattern of systematic violations of international law and suffering in occupied Palestine and restore international peace and security.

They called for the following urgent measures:

– Guaranteeing safe humanitarian access through UN-supervised land and naval corridors, including temporary housing before winter;
– Opening humanitarian corridors toward the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel for the wounded, sick, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, and children;
– Imposing sanctions on Israel for continued violations of international law and illegal occupation;
– A comprehensive arms embargo on Israel;
– Full and free access to international media to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including throughout Gaza.
– Ensuring that independent, international investigations are conducted into serious violations of international law, including the killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip, and that prosecutions are initiated under universal jurisdiction;
– Considering a UN-led international intervention if attacks persist and the humanitarian situation deteriorates further.

*The experts:

– Francesca Albanese: Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967;

– George Katrougalos, Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order

– Ashwini K.P., Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

– Olivier De Schutter: Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights

– Morris Tidball-Binz, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

– Ben Saul, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism

– Irene Khan, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

– Paula Gaviria, Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons

– Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

– Heba Hagrass, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities

– Farida Shaheed, Special Rapporteur on the right to education

– Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the right to food

– Pedro Arrojo Agudo, Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation

– Gina Romero, Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association

– Siobhán Mullally, the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children

– Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences

– Nicolas Levrat, Special Rapporteur on minority issues

– Michelle Small (Chair-Rapporteur), Ravindran Daniel, Jovana Jezdimirovic Ranito, Joana de Deus Pereira, Andrés Macías Tolosa, Working Group on the use of mercenaries

– Carlos Duarte (Chair), Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas

– Ivana Krstić (Vice-Chair), Dorothy Estrada Tanck, Haina Lu, and Laura Nyirinkindi, Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

07.11.2025 - 23:10 [ AgenziaNova.com ]

Palestinian President Abbas meets with Mattarella and Meloni during his visit to Italy – video

„At this time, it is particularly important to be able to engage in dialogue with you, confirming the great friendship that binds Palestine and Italy, which has been further consolidated during this period with a special closeness,“ Mattarella said, addressing Abbas. According to the President of the Republic, „we must proceed with great concreteness for humanitarian aid and the reconstruction of Gaza, and toward the creation of two states in the region. These objectives require the disarmament of Hamas and the strong involvement of Arab countries.“ In the Middle East, in Gaza, „we must act quickly to prevent those who do not want peace, on both sides, from reorganizing. It is essential to support the Sharm el-Sheikh peace plan, maintaining respect for the ceasefire on both sides,“ Mattarella stated.

03.11.2025 - 20:38 [ DevdisCourse.com ]

International Coalition Mulls Stabilization Force in Gaza Amid Ceasefire Tensions

Countries are in negotiations over a U.N. Security Council mandate concerning an international stabilization force in Gaza. The Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan, revealed these developments following a meeting with ministers from predominantly Muslim countries in Istanbul, amid heightened tensions between Hamas and Israel.

The meeting included Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and other nations that might deploy troops to monitor the truce.

24.10.2025 - 23:20 [ Times of Israel ]

Addressing Turkey, PA role in Gaza, Rubio says Israel must be ‘comfortable’ with countries that send troops

Asked in a press conference at the US Civil-Military Coordination Center whether Turkish troops would be deployed in the International Stabilization Force to be set up in the Strip, Rubio says, “We haven’t formed that force yet, so there’s still work going on.”

“Obviously, as you put together this force, it’ll have to be countries that Israel is comfortable with as well,” he continues, saying that “there are a lot of countries that are expressing interest right now,” adding he couldn’t specify them.

24.10.2025 - 22:49 [ Middle East Eye ]

Hamas says it agrees to hand over Gaza governance to Palestinian technocrats

Hamas said on Friday that it agreed with other Palestinian factions to hand over governance of Gaza to a committee of Palestinian technocrats.

The statement also said the factions agreed to „establishing an international committee to oversee the financing and implementation of the reconstruction of the Strip” and to take „all necessary measures to maintain security and stability throughout the Strip”.

The statement followed a meeting in Cairo, Egypt.

22.10.2025 - 11:19 [ Al Jazeera ]

UAE’s Gargash says discussions ongoing on deployment of security personnel to Gaza

Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, has addressed the situation in Gaza during in an interview at the Reuters NEXT Gulf Summit in Abu Dhabi.

He said much work remains to ensure…

20.10.2025 - 14:06 [ Middle East Eye ]

Vance says Gaza needs peacekeepers, security setup before Hamas disarms

The US vice president, JD Vance, on Monday said that security infrastructure needs to be in place and international peacekeepers need to deploy to Gaza before Hamas disarms.

“Before we actually can ensure that Hamas is properly disarmed, that’s going to require… some of these Gulf Arab states to get forces in there to actually apply some law and order and some security-keeping on the ground,” Vance told reporters.

“We don’t even have the security infrastructure in place, meaning the Gulf Arab states, our allies, don’t have the security infrastructure in place yet to confirm that Hamas is disarmed,” he added.

18.10.2025 - 18:59 [ theStandard.com.hk ]

UK sees lessons from Northern Ireland that could aid the fragile Gaza ceasefire process

The Irish Republican Army eventually agreed to put its arsenal “beyond use” by way of a secret process supervised by an international commission. Disarmament ran in parallel to efforts to resolve political disputes at the heart of the conflict, something that more than three decades of U.S.-led peace efforts in the Middle East have failed to accomplish.

It was slow going: The first batch of IRA weapons was decommissioned in 2001 and the last in 2005, seven years after the Good Friday Agreement. Several other British loyalist and Irish republican militant groups also disarmed as part of the process.

“The British might be able to counsel patience and pragmatism,” said Niall O Dochartaigh, a professor of political science at the University of Galway. “The IRA leadership had to be helped in various ways to make that argument (for disarmament) within the organization.

“Ultimately, decommissioning only happened in the Irish case once the IRA was satisfied that there was a political settlement bedded down,” he added.

18.10.2025 - 18:21 [ theGuardian.com ]

Egypt expected to lead global stabilisation force in Gaza, say diplomats

A European and US-backed UN security council motion to give a planned international stabilisation force robust powers to control security inside Gaza is being prepared, with the strong expectation that Egypt will lead it, diplomats have said.

The US is pressing for the force to have a UN mandate without being a fully fledged UN peacekeeping force and will operate with the kind of powers given to international troops operating in Haiti to combat armed gangs.

Turkey, Indonesia and Azerbaijan are also being billed alongside Egypt as the main troop contributors.

16.10.2025 - 09:49 [ Reuters ]

Planning under way for international force in Gaza, say US advisers

Among the countries the U.S. is speaking to about contributing to the force are Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Qatar and Azerbaijan, said the adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity.
(…)
After Hamas killed seven men in Gaza City it accused of collaborating with Israel, the advisers said there were discussions to establish safe zones for civilians to prevent such incidents.

15.10.2025 - 07:33 [ Malay Mail ]

We’ve never said no before — Anwar says Malaysia prepared to join Gaza peacekeeping mission if requested

(Tuesday, 14 Oct 2025 1:31 PM MYT)

“On the proposal for peacekeeping forces, that will be discussed by the Arab League, the OIC, and once the United Nations Security Council agrees, Malaysia is ready if requested or required,” he told the Dewan Rakyat during Prime Minister’s Question Time.

“In the past, we have never refused such requests. Whenever peacekeeping forces are needed, we send them. I agree that a peacekeeping mission is among the best guarantees to ensure security in Gaza,” he said in response to Kubang Kerian MP Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man.

15.10.2025 - 07:20 [ theGuardian.com ]

What issues are still to be resolved in the Gaza ceasefire deal?

“No one expects that the force would fight Hamas,” a western diplomat told the Financial Times. They argued that the mere presence of the force would make it harder for either side to resume the conflict even if it did “absolutely nothing”.

There are reasons for scepticism about whether the ISF could reliably prevent either side from acting, as illustrated by a recent grenade attack by an Israeli drone near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. There may be wider lessons from that deployment. You might have a model similarly mandated to patrol and report on ceasefire violations. But in southern Lebanon, they have been pretty toothless.

15.10.2025 - 06:04 [ Wafa.ps ]

Presidency statement on field executions carried out by Hamas in Gaza

The Presidency held Hamas fully responsible for these crimes that harm the supreme interests of the Palestinian people, as they seek to entrench Hamas’s control over the Gaza Strip, provide pretexts to the occupation, obstruct reconstruction, deepen division, and hinder the establishment of a free and independent State of Palestine.

15.10.2025 - 05:45 [ DRM News / Youtube ]

SHOCKING: Video Shows Hamas Fighters Executing Alleged Collaborators in Gaza City | AH1G

A disturbing video from Gaza shows Hamas fighters executing seven men accused of collaborating with Israel. Reuters verified the footage’s location in Gaza City and confirmed it was filmed Monday. Hamas sources admitted responsibility, vowing zero tolerance for “traitors” as fighters reemerge on Gaza’s streets following the ceasefire.

13.10.2025 - 23:15 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

WAR ON PALESTINE: Which part of the sentence “UN troops to Gaza” do you not understand?

(April 27, 2025)

– the militias of Hamas, Islamic Jijad and of every other armed group in Gaza lay down their weapons and try to explain why they were inviting the fascist regime of Israel to massacre over 50.000 people in Gaza, thousands in Lebanon, hundreds in the West Bank and scores in Yemen and and and…

– UN troops from, let‘s say, Algeria, South Africa, Nicaragua and Vietnam are marching into Gaza, with air defense systems shooting everything off the sky that has no feathers, in- and outgoing…

– end of genocidal war, occupation, ethnic cleansing, barbary and suffering in Gaza. And, for that matters, safety for the Israeli population, too. Because one thing has been undeniable proven: if it‘s about protecting them, they cannot rely on the Israeli military, spies and police…

– free, fair and safe elections in Gaza. (What do you think: will the Palestinians thank their noble „resistance“ for this nightmare at the ballot box? When they are free to speak their minds and there are armed and friendly UN soldiers standing before the electoral offices?)

– self-governance of Gaza, with – again – UN boots on the ground.

13.10.2025 - 15:32 [ Associated Press / Youtube ]

LIVE: View from Khan Younis as freed Palestinian prisoners arrive

Watch live as buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners arrive in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.

13.10.2025 - 15:26 [ DWS News / Youtube ]

EMOTIONAL MOMENTS: Crowds Welcome Freed Palestinian Prisoners in Khan Younis After Truce | AH1E

Thousands of Palestinians flooded the streets of Khan Younis to welcome home freed prisoners following the Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal.

11.10.2025 - 01:40 [ Nachrichtenagentur Radio Utopie ]

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11.10.2025 - 00:43 [ Reuters ]

Europeans, Arabs flesh out Gaza transition ideas to weigh on Trump plan

Trump‘s plan also calls for an international stabilisation force, and that was core to much of Thursday‘s discussions, including establishing a United Nations mandate for a peacekeeping force, officials said.

Diplomats said a number of countries had expressed interest in taking part, including Indonesia, which was represented on Thursday, but also Italy and Azerbaijan.

04.10.2025 - 19:30 [ Washington Post ]

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds

Q: When the war ends, would each of the following be an acceptable or unacceptable way for Gaza to be governed?

Completely acceptable (in %):

Governed by leaders elected by Palestinians in Gaza 30

Governed by group of existing Arab nations 10

Governed by the Palestinian Authority 10

Governed by Israel 14

Governed by Hamas 9

03.10.2025 - 22:07 [ Wafa.ps ]

President Abbas reaffirms commitment to holding general presidential and parliamentary elections within one year after end of war

President: We reaffirm our commitment to holding general presidential and parliamentary elections within one year after the end of the war

President: We have tasked the competent authorities with drafting a temporary constitution for the state, to be completed within three months, as a basis for the transition from authority to state

President: No party, political force, or individual may run for office unless they commit to the political program and the international and legal obligations of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the implementation of the two-state solution, the Arab Peace Initiative, the resolutions of international legitimacy, and the principle of one system, one law, and one legitimate security force

03.10.2025 - 22:03 [ Al Jazeera ]

Hamas says ready to release all Israeli captives, discuss details of Trump plan

It also said it agrees to hand over the administration of Gaza to an independent body of Palestinian technocrats, “based on Palestinian national consensus and Arab and Islamic support”.

“Other issues mentioned in President Trump’s proposal regarding the future of the Gaza Strip and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people are connected to a unified national position and relevant international laws and resolutions,” Hamas said.

They “will be addressed through a comprehensive Palestinian national framework, in which Hamas will participate and contribute responsibly”.

27.09.2025 - 23:49 [ Communist Party of Israel ]

MK Odeh to Submit Bill to Knesset to Recognize Palestinian State

“I welcome the decision of the UK, France, Australia, Canada and other countries to recognize a Palestinian state,” he wrote in X, adding that the Palestinian people are no better or worse than anyone else, but nevertheless deserve the right to self-determination. “On the first day of the winter session, I will place on the Knesset table a bill to recognize a Palestinian state. Because there are two people here, and the State of Israel must also recognize this simple fact.”

Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman told The Jerusalem Post that the recognition of a Palestinian state by “Western powers is an important step, but it is not enough, too little too late.” Touma-Sliman said that Palestinian state recognition “must be the beginning of a serious pressure campaign on Israel and its backers in the White House, including economic measures and arms embargoes.” “The world knows that the destruction of Gaza must end, and a Palestinian state must be established alongside Israel. It is time for action,” she said.

19.09.2025 - 21:16 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Mahmoud Abbas considers unilaterally declaring Palestinian statehood at UNGA – report

(August 10, 2025)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is considering unilaterally announcing the transformation of the PA into a state during the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York in September, London-based outlet al-Araby al-Jadeed reported on Sunday.

19.09.2025 - 06:05 [ Avaaz.org ]

Petition: Urgent International Military Protection for Palestinians

We demand:

The immediate establishment of an international military force to protect Palestinian civilians.

Immediate cessation of all military actions by Israel against the civilian populations of Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Enforcement of United Nations resolutions and international legal frameworks that recognize the rights of the Palestinian people to peace, security, and self-determination.

Accountability for those responsible for war crimes and violations of human rights.

We call on governments worldwide to stand against these atrocities and fulfill their moral and legal obligations to protect the Palestinian people .

19.09.2025 - 05:58 [ United Nations ]

Uniting for peace – General Assembly Resolution

(November 3, 1950)

1. Resolves that if the Security Council, because of lack of unanimity of the permanent members, fails to exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security in any case where there appears to be a threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression, the General Assembly shall consider the matter immediately with a view to making appropriate recommendations to Members for collective measures, including in the case of a breach of the peace or act of aggression the use of armed force when necessary, to maintain or restore international peace and security. If not in session at the time, the General Assembly may meet in emergency special session within twenty-four hours of the request therefor. Such emergency special session shall be called if requested by the Security Council on the vote of any seven members, or by a majority of the Members of the United Nations;

2.Adopts for this purpose the amendments to its rules of procedure set forth in the annex to the present resolution;

05.09.2025 - 22:04 [ Democracy Now ]

“Uniting for Peace”: How U.N. Could Override U.S. Veto, Send Peacekeepers to Gaza, Block Arms & More

(September 4, 2025)

ou know, far too many delegations have gotten into the habit of hiding behind the U.S. veto by throwing up their arms and saying, “Well, we tried, but the U.S. vetoed it.” But Uniting for Peace allows the member states of the United Nations, 193 of them, in the General Assembly, to circumvent the U.S. veto and to adopt concrete action, as it did, for example, in 1956 by mandating the U.N. emergency force to deploy to the Sinai in the middle of the Suez Crisis against the wishes of two Security Council members, the United Kingdom and France, and against the wishes of Israel. It could do the same thing now, in September, by mandating a U.N. protection force for the people in Gaza and, more broadly, in Palestine, that is specifically mandated to protect civilians, that is mandated to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid, to preserve evidence of Israeli war crimes and to begin the process of reconstruction, most importantly, to change the incentive structure for Israel and its co-conspirators in the genocide that’s happening in Palestine. (…)

…the beauty of the Uniting for Peace mechanism is that the secretary-general cannot block it, the Security Council cannot block it, the United States cannot block it. It only requires a two-third majority of the member states. There is a move underway to build that majority now, and the hope is that that will take place.

05.09.2025 - 21:59 [ Common Dreams ]

We Must Stop Israel From Starving the People of Gaza—Here‘s How

(September 2, 2025)

Under the „Uniting for Peace“ mechanism, when the Security Council is deadlocked, the authority to act passes to the General Assembly. After a Security Council session and the almost inevitable US veto, the issue would be brought before the UNGA in a resumed 10th emergency special session on the Israel-Palestine conflict. There, the General Assembly can, by a two-thirds majority not subject to US veto, authorize a protection force in response to an urgent request from the State of Palestine. There is a precedent: in 1956, the General Assembly authorized the UN Emergency Force (UNEF) to enter Egypt and protect it from the ongoing invasion by Israel, France, and the United Kingdom.

At the invitation of Palestine, the protection force would enter Gaza to secure emergency humanitarian aid for the starving population. If Israel were to attack the UN protection force, the force would be authorized to defend itself and the Gazans. Whether Israel and the US would dare to fight a UNGA-mandated force protecting the starving Gazans remains to be seen.

05.09.2025 - 21:28 [ Protect-Palestine.com ]

AN APPEAL TO ALL BROADCASTERS – Stop ignoring international demand for military intervention

(August 29, 2025)

We are aware that international calls for military intervention have been sidelined and ignored by mainstream media platforms, but people worldwide are awakening to a clear truth – Israel is ideologically committed to the extermination or expulsion of Palestinians, cannot be negotiated with and must therefore by stopped militarily.

The world has a legal and moral obligation to militarily intervene to stop the extermination. The illegal seige of Gaza must be broken, unlimited food and aid must be delivered to all Palestinians, a no fly zone must be estbalished, all Israelies must be forced to evacuate from Palestine including in West Bank and East Jerusalem, all Israeli checkpoints and walls and military inftrastructure must be dismantled. These are the minimum conditions to stop Israel‘s genocide of Palestinians and for any meaningful prospect of Palestinians exercising self determination or the continuation of their inherent right to armed resistance over their own land, all of which must remain the ultimate goal of international military intervention.

05.09.2025 - 21:24 [ Middle East Monitor ]

Gaza Tribunal calls for armed UN intervention to halt ‘most lethal phase of genocide’ in Gaza

(August 18, 2025)

“The imminent escalation deeply challenges member governments of the UN … to take drastic action now,” Falk declared, citing legal pathways such as the 1950 Uniting for Peace Resolution and the Responsibility to Protect framework adopted at the UN’s 2005 summit.

Quoting Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour’s appeal for immediate protection forces, the tribunal declared: “We, as the Gaza Tribunal, join with those who treat silence in the face of genocide as complicity.”

05.09.2025 - 19:59 [ EuropeanConservative.com ]

Finland to Sign French-Saudi Declaration on Israel-Palestine Two-State Solution

Several countries, among them France, Britain, and Belgium have pledged to recognise Palestinian statehood during the 80th UN General Assembly in September.

The adoption of the French-Saudi declaration is “consistent with Finland’s government report on Finnish foreign and security policy, which was unanimously adopted by parliament,” Valtonen said.

05.09.2025 - 19:49 [ Ministry of Foreign Affairs / People’s Republic of China ]

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun’s Regular Press Conference on September 5, 2025

CGTN: We’ve learned that China agreed to join the New York Declaration, the outcome document of the High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution. What’s your comment?

Guo Jiakun: The Palestinian question is at the core of the Middle East issue, and to implement the two-State solution is the only viable solution to the question. China agreed to join the New York Declaration, which is in line with our consistent position on the question. The Palestinian question is now at a crucial juncture. We support all efforts that are conducive to the political settlement of the question. We will continue to work with the international community to make unremitting efforts towards the end of the fighting in Gaza, deescalation of the humanitarian crisis, implementation of the two-State solution, and the ultimate, comprehensive, just and lasting resolution of the Palestinian question.

05.09.2025 - 19:43 [ AbbTakk.tv ]

China joins New York Declaration, reiterates stance on Palestine

“The Palestinian question is at the core of the Middle East issue, and to implement the two-state solution is the only viable solution,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiankun told reporters in Beijing.

“China agreed to join the New York Declaration, which is in line with our consistent position on the Palestinian question, which is now at a crucial juncture. We support all efforts that are conducive to the political settlement of the question,” he said.