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US vetoes Palestine’s request for full UN membership
Security Council Fails to Recommend Full United Nations Membership for State of Palestine, Owing to Veto Cast by United States
UN Women launches latest Gender Alert on Gaza: Scarcity and Fear
The series of gender alerts produced by UN Women on Gaza provides a detailed analysis of the reality of women’s and girls’ lives in the Gaza Strip, documenting abhorrent living conditions. "Scarcity and Fear" focuses on the lack of access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services, which are vital to women's health, dignity, safety, and privacy.
Urgent and effective international intervention needed to stop the crimes of the Israeli occupation and its armed settler militias
The General Delegation of Palestine strongly condemns the violations and crimes committed by Israeli colonial settler militias and their armed terrorist factions against defenceless Palestinian civilians throughout the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian request for UN membership moves on to specialized committee
The Security Council on Monday referred the application of the observer State of Palestine for full UN membership to the specialized committee set up to vet new members - UN News
Humanitarian Nightmare: Al-Shifa Hospital and Strikes on Humanitarians in Gaza
Letter by the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, "Humanitarian Nightmare: Al-Shifa Hospital and Strikes on Humanitarians in Gaza"
People in northern Gaza forced to survive on 245 calories a day, less than a can of beans – Oxfam
Oxfam International: For nearly 20 years, the Israeli government has calculated the calories needed to prevent malnutrition in #Gaza, accounting for age, gender, and local food production—yet, recent actions have nearly wiped out these critical food sources. Now, people in Northern Gaza are barely surviving on less than 12% of their daily needs.
Statement: International Aid Workers - including an Australian - Killed in Israeli Airstrike
The General Delegation of Palestine is shocked and grieved by reports that an Israeli airstrike killed four international humanitarian aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity (including one Australian) and their Palestinian driver after the group helped to deliver desperately-needed humanitarian aid to northern Gaza.
Statement Welcoming Australian Senate Urgency Motion on Gaza
The General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific welcomes the agreement of the Australian Senate on the urgency motion of 26 March 2024 by a vote of 29 in favour to 22 against.
Anatomy of a Genocide - A/HRC/55/73
"Anatomy of a Genocide" - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Gaza: Halt the war now to save children from dying of imminent famine, UN Committee warns
With children in North Gaza facing imminent famine and others across the Gaza Strip in danger of catastrophic food insecurity, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child reiterates its call for an immediate ceasefire.