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(UN News)* — The UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said that Israeli police raided its compound in East Jerusalem early on Monday [], representing “a new challenge to international law.”
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07/12/2025
A Fragile Peace, a Harsh Winter: Gaza’s Families Struggle to Rebuild
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By Rayya Almuheisen, IOM Gaza
(UN News)* — Nearly two months after the latest ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on 10 October, a fragile calm has brought much-needed relief to families who have endured unimaginable suffering and repeated displacement.
Sabah, her husband Ahmad, and their seven children spent weeks sleeping in the open after losing their home.
“We fled from Shuja’iya to Rimal, then to the south – Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – and then back to Shuja’iya,” Ahmad explains.
“Every time we move, we lose more of what little we have.”
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06/12/2025
What Happens If Nuclear Weapons Are Used?
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By The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)*
Nuclear weapons are the most destructive, inhumane and indiscriminate weapons ever created. Both in the scale of the devastation they cause, and in their uniquely persistent, spreading, genetically damaging radioactive fallout, they are unlike any other weapons.
A mushroom cloud after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killing over 73,000 people. Keystone / Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum
A single nuclear bomb detonated over a large city could kill millions of people. The use of tens or hundreds of nuclear bombs would disrupt the global climate, causing widespread famine.
If a nuclear weapon detonates, what happens?
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06/12/2025
Any Resumption of US Tests May Trigger Threats from Other Nuclear Powers
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– President Donald Trump’s recent announcement to resume nuclear testing rekindles nightmares of a bygone era where military personnel and civilians were exposed to devastating radioactive fallouts.
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A nuclear test is carried out on an island in French Polynesia in 1971. Credit: CTBTO
In the five decades between 1945 and the opening for the signature of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996, over 2,000 nuclear tests were carried out all over the world. The United States conducted 1,032 tests between 1945 and 1992.
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05/12/2025
Gaza: Pregnant Women Trapped in “a Spiral of Displacement, Bombardment and Acute Hunger”
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UN support helps Gaza mothers give birth amid collapsing health system
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04/12/2025
For 78 Years, the Palestinians Have Been Denied Their Inalienable Rights & Their Right to Self-Determination
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Annalena Baerbock In her address as President of the UN General Assembly
Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe September 2025
– For seventy-eight years, the question of Palestine has been on the agenda of this General Assembly, almost as long as the institution itself.
Resolution 181 (II) was adopted by the General Assembly on November 29 1947 – laying the foundation for the Two State Solution and calling for the establishment of both an Arab State and a Jewish State in Palestine.
But while the Jewish State, the State of Israel, is a recognized Member State of the United Nations, the Arab State, the State of Palestine, is not.
Seventy-eight years later, Palestine has still not been admitted to the UN as a full Member.
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04/12/2025
Air Strikes and Shelling Continue in Gaza
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(UN News)* — The UN has called for an investigation into the recent “horrific” killing by Israeli forces of two young brothers in Gaza who were reportedly targeted by a drone while collecting firewood.
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This comes as humanitarians continue to receive reports that air strikes, shelling, gunfire and other continuing Israeli military operations in the enclave are causing more civilian casualties, displacement and destruction.
In recent days, hundreds of families were reportedly displaced in two neighbourhoods in eastern Gaza City following strikes and movement of military equipment, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York on Wednesday.
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03/12/2025
Crackdown on Palestinian Civil Society Is Reaching Alarming Levels, Warns UN Human Rights
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(UN News)* — The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has condemned an Israeli raid on the Union of Agricultural Work Committees in the occupied West Bank, warning that pressure on Palestinian civil society has reached alarming levels.
Olive harvest season in the Occupied West Bank in Palestine, October 2025.
Israeli security forces raided the organisation’s offices in Ramallah and Hebron on 1 December, vandalising property and detaining staff.
According to OHCHR, people present in the buildings were blindfolded, handcuffed and made to kneel or lie on the floor for several hours. Eight men were detained.
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02/12/2025
In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Journalism Is ‘Both a Battleground and a Lifeline’
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(UN News)* — More than 260 media professionals were killed in the recent hostilities in Gaza – the deadliest conflict for journalists in decades.
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02/12/2025
Gaza: UN Reports Expanded ‘Winterisation’ Efforts as Cold Weather and Heavy Rain Continue to Impact Displaced Palestinians
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(UN News)* — The UN says humanitarian partners in Gaza are scaling up winterisation efforts as cold weather and heavy rain continue to impact displaced Palestinians.
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