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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

25.11.2025 - 20:56 [ Israel Hayom ]

International force for Gaza unlikely as countries refuse to deploy troops

(November 23, 2025)

Israeli assessments increasingly show the International Stabilization Force for Gaza, designed to disarm Hamas, won‘t materialize. Establishing the force represents a central element of Donald Trump‘s 20-point plan for ending the war and was incorporated into Security Council Resolution 2803 approved last week. Yet no nation globally has expressed readiness to have its forces directly engage Hamas fighters.

25.11.2025 - 20:45 [ United Nations ]

Security Council must seize ‘moment of renewed hope’ in Gaza

The ceasefire in Gaza is largely holding but recent violence by Israel and Palestinian militants put the truce at risk, the UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council on Monday.

Ramiz Alakbarov briefed on conditions in the battered enclave and the occupied West Bank, before touching on developments in Lebanon and Syria.

“Today we meet at a moment of renewed hope,” he said, speaking from Jerusalem.

“While progress on the ground is fragile and deep uncertainty persists, we must seize the opportunity before us to chart a better future for Palestinians, Israelis and the wider region.”

17.11.2025 - 23:02 [ United Nations ]

The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question – Security Council, 10046th meeting

The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question – Security Council, 10046th meeting

17.11.2025 - 20:25 [ United Nations ]

United Nations Security Council: PERMANENT AND NON-PERMANENT MEMBERS

The Council is composed of 15 Members:

Five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly (with end of term year):

– Algeria (2025)
– Denmark (2026)
– Greece (2026)
– Guyana (2025)
– Pakistan (2026)
– Panama (2026)
– Republic of Korea (2025)
– Sierra Leone (2025)
– Slovenia (2025)
– Somalia (2026)

17.11.2025 - 20:16 [ United Nations ]

Security Council to vote on new Gaza force: Here’s what you need to know

If adopted, the resolution would provide international legal authority for a multinational security mission, seen by potential troop-contributing countries and donors as necessary for deployment. No UN peacekeeping presence is envisaged.

It could represent a decisive transition from active conflict to stabilisation and reconstruction, combining security guarantees with reforms to governance and services.

16.11.2025 - 13:50 [ Wafa.ps ]

Presidency calls for urgent international pressure on Israel to allow aid into Gaza

RAMALLAH, November 15, 2025 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Presidency has appealed to the international community, particularly the U.S. administration and the guarantor states of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, to pressure Israel to expedite the entry of mobile houses and tents into the Gaza Strip.

This request comes in response to the severe weather conditions currently threatening the lives of Gaza‘s residents. The remaining tents in Gaza are old, torn, and inadequate, failing to prevent rain from entering and offering little protection to civilians.

16.11.2025 - 13:36 [ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) ]

A/80/4922 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese – Gaza Genocide: a collective crime

(October 20, 2025)

Summary

The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a collective crime, sustained by the complicity of influential Third States that have enabled longstanding systemic violations of international law by Israel. Framed by colonial narratives that dehumanize the Palestinians, this live-streamed atrocity has been facilitated through Third States’ direct support, material aid, diplomatic protection and, in some cases, active participation. It has exposed an unprecedented chasm between peoples and their governments, betraying the trust on which global peace and security rest. The world now stands on a knife-edge between the collapse of the international rule of law and hope for renewal. Renewal is only possible if complicity is confronted, responsibilities are met and justice is upheld.

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25. Certain non-Western States have turned to international courts to seek accountability and pressurize Israel to cease its actions. While only 13 States have supported South Africa before the ICJ, most Western States have persistently denied genocide. None have joined Nicaragua against Germany at the ICJ, or invoked domestic laws against complicit corporations or individuals. Only seven referred the situation to the ICC, many sought to undermine its arrest warrants, and at least 37 States were non-committal or critical, signalling intent to evade arrest obligations.

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. Military Ties: providing the means of destruction

32. While UN resolutions have called for arms embargoes on Israel since 1976, many States have continued supplying it with military support and arms transfers. Israel is disproportionately dependent on weapons imports, with the proportion of their total trade more than double the OECD average, and over four times greater than that of the United States. This international supply has continued, even as the evidence of genocide has mounted, with the United States, Germany and Italy among the largest suppliers. Only a few Western States, notably Spain and Slovenia, have cancelled contracts and imposed embargoes.

16.11.2025 - 13:16 [ Middle East Eye ]

Francesca Albanese: Why I‘m accusing 63 nations of complicity in the Gaza genocide

The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, has accused major European powers, including the UK, Italy and Germany, of complicity in the genocide in Gaza and warned that their government officials should face legal consequences.

In an interview with the Expert Witness podcast on 3 November, Albanese discussed the findings of her latest report, titled Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime, where she cited evidence of the alleged responsibility of 63 states for enabling Israeli breaches of international law.

13.11.2025 - 20:56 [ United Nations ]

‘A wave of truth’: COP30 targets disinformation threat to climate action

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva set the tone at the opening session, declaring that the battle for truth has become just as critical as the fight to cut emissions. COP30 must mark “a new defeat for climate denialists,” he said.

On Wednesday, 12 nations – including Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and Spain – signed onto the first-ever Declaration on Information Integrity on Climate Change, pledging to fight back against the flood of false content and protect those on the frontlines of truth: environmental journalists, scientists and researchers.

The declaration, unveiled under the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change, calls for concrete steps to dismantle networks of climate lies and shield evidence-based voices from harassment and attacks.

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.

02.11.2025 - 23:12 [ Newsweek ]

Aid Groups Warn Thousands at Risk in Darfur After RSF Takeover

(November 2, 2025)

Days after Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, in a violent assault that included the killing of more than 400 people at a hospital, aid groups warn that tens of thousands of civilians are at risk amid continuing violence, including some that may be trapped in el-Fasher and others harmed while fleeing.

02.11.2025 - 23:03 [ ABC News ]

Fears grow for thousands trapped in Sudan‘s el-Fasher

(Novemebr 2, 2025)

A total of 70,894 people have been displaced since the RSF took control, it said.

However, less than 6,000 have made it to the nearest camp in Tawila, 65 kilometers (40 miles) away, said Shashwat Saraf, Sudan director for the Norwegian Refugee Council, which runs the camp.

Almost 1,000 people arrived in the last three days, he said.

“The numbers are still very few. We are not seeing the hundreds of thousands that we were expecting. If people are still in el-Fasher, it will be very difficult for them to survive,” he told The Associated Press by phone from Tawila.

02.11.2025 - 22:40 [ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ]

US attacks in Caribbean and Pacific violate international human rights law – UN Human Rights Chief

(October 31, 2025)

GENEVA – Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific – allegedly linked to drug trafficking – violate international human rights law, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday.

“Over 60 people have reportedly been killed in a continuing series of attacks carried out by US armed forces against boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific since early September, in circumstances that find no justification in international law,” the High Commissioner said.

“These attacks – and their mounting human cost – are unacceptable. The US must halt such attacks and take all measures necessary to prevent the extrajudicial killing of people aboard these boats, whatever the criminal conduct alleged against them.”

01.11.2025 - 00:34 [ United Nations ]

‘Blood on the sand. Blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls

“What is unfolding in El Fasher recalls the horrors Darfur was subjected to twenty years ago,” Mr. Fletcher said, referring to the atrocities of the early 2000s that shocked the world and eventually led to International Criminal Court indictments.

“But somehow today we are seeing a very different global reaction – one of resignation,” he continued. “This is also a crisis of apathy.”

“The Sudan crisis is, at its core, a failure of protection, and our responsibility to uphold international law,” Mr. Fletcher said. “Atrocities are committed with unashamed expectation of impunity…the world has failed an entire generation.”

29.10.2025 - 23:16 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Any government in the world could expel the rogue state of Israel from the United Nations. None does.

(April 27, 2025)

It‘s not the world order that has failed the Palestinians. It‘s the world.

29.10.2025 - 22:50 [ United Nations ]

Reported massacre at hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher leaves 460 dead

Horrific stories of mass-atrocities committed by the RSF militia continue to emerge, along with the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the North Darfur city of El Fasher in Sudan.

28.10.2025 - 00:17 [ United Nations ]

Risk of large-scale atrocities in Sudan’s El Fasher grows ‘by the day’

The agency has received reports of summary executions of civilians trying to escape what was the last Sudanese military government stronghold of El Fasher – with indications of ethnic motivations for killings – and of former combatants who have put down their weapons, which is prohibited under humanitarian law.

“The risk of further large-scale, ethnically motivated violations and atrocities in El Fasher is mounting by the day,” warned UN human rights chief Volker Türk.

“Urgent and concrete action needs to be taken to ensure the protection of civilians in El Fasher and safe passage for those trying to reach relative safety.”

28.10.2025 - 00:12 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Bürgerkrieg im Sudan: Sorge um Hunderttausende in Al-Faschir

Das sudanesische Ärztenetzwerk teilte mit, RSF-Kämpfer hätten nach ihrem Einmarsch in Al-Faschir am Sonntag Dutzende Zivilisten getötet und Krankenhäuser und andere Gesundheitseinrichtungen geplündert.

Das Darfur-Netzwerk für Menschenrechte berichtete von mehr als 1.000 teilweise willkürlichen Festnahmen.

27.10.2025 - 23:48 [ Middle East Eye ]

Sudan’s RSF storms el-Fasher after UAE shuts down talks on city

However, sources told Middle East Eye that the UAE, which is the RSF’s most significant patron, refused to address the situation in el-Fasher, which has been under siege for over 500 days.

27.10.2025 - 23:45 [ NewArab.com ]

Fears for civilians trapped in Sudan‘s El-Fasher as RSF advances

The Rapid Support Forces claimed to have captured the city on Sunday, the last state capital in Darfur yet to fall to the paramilitaries.

24.10.2025 - 23:58 [ Fox News ]

Rubio slams UNRWA as a ‚subsidiary of Hamas,‘ vows it will not ‚play any role‘ in delivering aid to Gaza

„UNRWA‘s not going to play any role in it,“ Rubio said when asked about whether the controversial agency would assist in delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. „The United Nations is here. They‘re on the ground. We‘re willing to work with them if they can make it work, but not UNRWA. UNRWA became a subsidiary of Hamas.“

23.10.2025 - 19:24 [ Radio France Internationale ]

No reduction in Gaza hunger since truce: WHO

„The situation still remains catastrophic because what‘s entering is not enough,“ WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an online press briefing from the UN health agency‘s Geneva headquarters.

Since the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect on October 10, there has been „no dent in hunger, because there is not enough food“, he warned.

23.10.2025 - 19:01 [ Radio France Internationale ]

Aid to Gaza still a fraction of promised amounts: UN data

The International Court of Justice said Wednesday that Israel was obliged to ease the passage of aid into famine-wracked Gaza, stressing it had to provide Palestinians with the „basic needs“ to survive.

The data analysed by AFP is compiled by the UN‘s „2720 Mechanism for Gaza“, which has monitored and tracked humanitarian aid entering Gaza since May 19, the day after the end of Israel‘s two-month blockade of Gaza which prevented humanitarian aid from entering.

22.10.2025 - 17:09 [ South China Morning Post ]

ICJ orders Israel to allow UNRWA aid into Gaza amid ceasefire and famine crisis

The ICJ’s advisory opinion, issued during a fragile ceasefire, reinforces UN authority and affects global humanitarian missions

22.10.2025 - 16:24 [ Al Jazeera ]

World Court says Israel must ensure ‘basic needs’ of people in Gaza

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) says Israel must facilitate UN aid efforts in Gaza, including UNRWA’s, and must ensure “basic needs” of Gaza population.

21.10.2025 - 14:29 [ United Nations ]

Gaza: Aid efforts continue as UN teams start clearing up to 60 million tonnes of debris

“Rubble represents a major challenge in Gaza, where the estimated amount is between 55 and 60 million tonnes,” said Jaco Cilliers, UNDP Representative in Palestine.

The UN agency taking the vital first step by clearing roads and recycling materials to pave new access routes and temporary facilities.

Dozens of diggers and other vehicles have been deployed along Al-Jalaa Street, where UNDP says it is working around the clock to open roads that have been blocked for months.

“This is a very arduous process and will take many years to complete,” Mr. Cilliers cautioned.

21.10.2025 - 13:54 [ Middle East Eye ]

Qatar’s emir accuses Israel of genocide and violating ceasefire

“What happened in Gaza was genocide,” he said, stressing that the Gaza Strip is an inseparable part of a future united Palestinian state.

He said Israel is not only breaching the truce, but also accelerating settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank and pushing ahead with attempts to Judaise the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – all in violation of international law.

“The international community must provide protection for the Palestinian people and ensure that perpetrators of genocide do not escape accountability,” the emir said, criticising the UN for failing to uphold international legitimacy “when it comes to the tragedy of the Palestinians”.

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.

17.10.2025 - 14:01 [ UltimasNoticias.com.ve ]

Venezuela denounces US „license to kill“ at the UN and demands answers

„So far, they‘ve carried out five lethal attacks, resulting in 27 deaths,“ he said, adding that some of the victims have been reported as Colombians, Venezuelans, and Trinidadians, so these actions „affect the entire region; it‘s not just a Venezuelan issue. The victims come from other countries as well.“

He warned about Donald Trump‘s threat to escalate these incidents into potential attacks on land targets, which violates the „provisions of Article 2.4 of the United Nations Charter, relating to the abstention from the use of force.“

16.10.2025 - 16:10 [ theMediaLine.org ]

Pakistan, Indonesia, and Azerbaijan Weigh Joining Gaza Stabilization Force as Trump Team Works To Form Palestinian Technocratic Government

According to US defense sources, the three nations are “top contenders” to supply troops to the proposed International Stabilization Force, though none has yet formally agreed to participate. A Trump adviser named Indonesia and Azerbaijan, along with Egypt, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, as possible contributors. So far, Indonesia is the only country to publicly offer troops, saying it could deploy 20,000 soldiers under a United Nations (UN)-mandated peacekeeping mission—something not outlined in Trump’s 20-point plan.

The US is also moving to recruit Palestinians for a transitional technocratic government to administer Gaza.

16.10.2025 - 12:34 [ Al Jazeera ]

Left-wing Italian opposition parties support plan to deploy stabilisation force to Gaza

Italian opposition parties, including the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and the left-wing Five Star Movement (M5S), have supported the government’s plan to deploy troops to Gaza as part of a peacekeeping mission, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

16.10.2025 - 10:47 [ theNationalNews.com ]

US advisers say efforts under way for international force in Gaza

The UN Security Council is expected to work on a resolution in the coming weeks that would set up a mandate for the force.