2024
Statement on Australia’s Decision to Pause Funding to UNRWA
In response to the Australian government's deeply disappointing and regrettable decision to pause disbursement of recent funding to UNRWA, which will have dire implications for over 5.9 million Palestinian refugees across the region and especially in the Gaza Strip, where over 2 million desperate, besieged, and starving people are dependent on UNRWA’s humanitarian work for their very survival.
Statement: Punitive Measures Against UNRWA
The State of Palestine expresses its shock and dismay at the punitive measures announced in recent days by several States against UNRWA. These harmful decisions come not only in a time of unprecedented crisis for Palestine refugees, but in the midst of a humanitarian catastrophe being suffered by all the Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip, for whom UNRWA has literally been the only lifeline.
PM Shtayyeh calls for resuming funding for UNRWA
Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh today called on the countries that announced their temporary freeze of new financial assistance for UNRWA, the primary provider of humanitarian assistance to people in Gaza, to reverse their decision.
Statement: Palestine welcomes the provisional measures ordered by the ICJ
The State of Palestine welcomes the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice today. States now have clear legal obligations to stop Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza and to make sure that they are not complicit.
Israeli crimes and systematic aggression against Christian Holy Sites and Palestinian Christians - 2023 Summary
Summary of Israeli targeted and escalating crimes and systematic aggression against Christian Holy Sites, properties, institutions, and Palestinian Christians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, in 2023.
Statement: Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
The State of Palestine rejects and condemns the latest statements made by Israel's Prime Minister pledging to continue the genocidal war in defiance of both the international community and the role of the International Court of Justice.
100 days of horror, destruction and displacement
In the wake of a hundred days marked by relentless killings, destruction, and despair, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu refuses to halt the war on Gaza. Facing charges of genocide by the International Court of Justice, Netanyahu defiantly declares, "No one will stop us, neither The Hague nor anyone else."
Identical Letter from the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations: Mounting Casualties and Desperation in Gaza
As we near 100 days of Israel’s criminal onslaught against the Palestinian civilian population under its occupation, we are nearing a horrific toll of 100,000 Palestinian casualties. And still, there is no ceasefire, leading to more innocent victims by the day. No one should be fooled by Israel’s claims of sparing civilian lives; the facts speak for themselves.
South Africa asks ICJ to stop Israel's brutal genocide in Gaza
South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order the occupying state of Israel to immediately stop its wanton genocide campaign in Gaza.
The demand came at the closing of the first day of hearings of a case brought by South Africa against Israel at the ICJ.
Euro-Med Monitor: Israel intensifies its forced displacement campaign in Gaza, targets shelter centres housing refugees
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: Israel’s intensification of its military assaults on the Gaza Strip’s shelter centres is part of a declared effort to carry out its displacement plans against the Gazan people, give them the impression that there is nowhere safe for them to live within the Strip, and worsen their suffering amid the genocide that has been ongoing since 7 October