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Screen capture from video of UN Assistant Secretary-General Martha Pobee, 2025. (United Nations)
June 2, 2026, 3:01 pm
At UN Security Council, envoys blame Hezbollah for Lebanon violence, pan Israeli response
Assistant secretary-general says Israel’s push into northern neighbor violates UN resolution, as does Hezbollah’s refusal to disarm; France holds terror group, Iran responsible for fighting
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Secretary General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on May 20, 2026. (Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)
May 29, 2026, 1:21 am
Israel cuts ties with UN chief for adding IDF to war-zone sexual violence blacklist
Jerusalem fumes over ‘shameful,’ ‘baseless’ placement on same list as Hamas; UN claims it verified 31 cases of abuse against male and female Palestinian detainees over past 3 years
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon points toward the Iranian delegation during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at UN headquarters in New York on February 28, 2026. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
March 1, 2026, 8:34 am
US, Israel defend strikes on Iran as lawful at heated UN Security Council meeting
Islamic Republic’s ambassador calls death of civilians amid joint attack a crime against humanity; US counterpart trades barbs over regime’s mass killing of protesters last month
By AP and Jacob Magid
A screen displays the voting results approving a draft resolution in support of lasting peace in Ukraine during the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Ukraine at UN Headquarters in New York, on February 24, 2026. (Leonardo Munoz / AFP)
February 25, 2026, 12:52 am
Israel backs United Nations vote voicing support for Ukraine, as US abstains
Israeli ambassador to UN says Jerusalem and Washington ‘each have their own calculations’; FM Sa’ar announces 117 power generators will be sent to Kyiv region
By AFP and Lazar Berman
A boy sits outside the entrance to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) building complex in Gaza City on September 6, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
January 13, 2026, 11:05 pm
UN chief threatens to refer Israel to World Court over laws targeting UNRWA
In letter to PM, Guterres says legislation violates obligations under international law; UN envoy Danon says UN chief threatening Israel instead of dealing with terror in agency
By Reuters
UN vehicles escort a destroyed truck reportedly used by UNRWA workers that was fired upon by Israeli forces, as it is carried by a trailer vehicle along Gaza's main Salah al-Din road outside Deir al-Balah in central Gaza on October 23, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
December 13, 2025, 5:36 am
UN backs ICJ declaration that UNRWA isn’t infiltrated by Hamas; Israel denounces vote
Head of Palestinian welfare agency hails ‘strong endorsement’ from General Assembly; US slams ‘unserious and biased’ resolution, condemns UNWRA as ‘a Hamas subsidiary complicit in Oct. 7’
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour (L) greets French President Emmanuel Macron (C) as he arrives for a United Nations Summit on Palestinians at UN headquarters during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on September 22, 2025. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
September 23, 2025, 2:58 am
France leads group of European nations recognizing Palestinian state at UN summit
Macron and others recognize Palestine in defiance of US and Israel, which says two-state solution ‘off the table’ after Oct. 7; Abbas insists PA prepared to govern future state
By Jacob Magid
Former Hamas hostage Naama Levy speaks in New York City, September 19, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
September 19, 2025, 11:08 pm
Ex-hostage Naama Levy to diplomats in NY: ‘No greater crisis to work toward ending’
Former captive says time she was held in Gaza ‘will remain carved into my body and soul’; father of US-born Omer Neutra, whose body is held in Strip, slams Israeli strike on Doha
By Luke Tress
The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution endorsing the New York Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, September 12, 2025 (UN)
September 12, 2025, 9:45 pm
UN overwhelmingly endorses non-binding call to establish Palestinian state without Hamas
Resolution passed 142 to 10 condemns Oct. 7 massacre, calls on Hamas to free hostages; Israel, US vote against; Israel slams declaration, says it is a reward for Hamas
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon speaks at a Security Council session on August 27, 2025. (Perry Bindelglass/Israeli Mission to the UN)
August 29, 2025, 4:52 am
Israel’s UN envoy: Western leaders recognizing Palestinian state to ‘blow off steam’
Danny Danon says ‘disconnected’ countries want to ‘show they’re doing something’ at next month’s UN General Assembly, though move won’t have any impact beyond ‘hindering’ hostage talks
By Jacob Magid
French UN peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese-Israeli border in the village of Houla, southern Lebanon, August 20, 2025. (AP/Hussein Malla)
August 28, 2025, 11:23 pm
UN Security Council renews UNIFIL mission for one final year before shutdown
Israel welcomes decision to end Lebanon peacekeeping force’s mission after 48 years, saying it reflects recent ‘positive developments’ as Beirut moves to disarm Hezbollah
By Agencies, Jacob Magid and Nava Freiberg
An Iranian flag flutters in front of the Iranian Consulate, where Iranian diplomats meet counterparts from Germany, Britain and France for renewed nuclear talks, in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 25, 2025. (Yasin AKGUL / AFP)
August 28, 2025, 10:55 pm
UK, France, Germany launch process to impose snapback sanctions on Iran
US, Israel praise move as FM Sa’ar calls measures an ‘important step’ in countering Iranian nuclear ambitions; Tehran to continue talks with E3 before they take effect
By Lazar Berman, Reuters and AFP
Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, winter 2023. (Breaking The Silence via AP)
August 13, 2025, 10:36 am
UN chief warns Israel it may be put on sexual violence blacklist; in 1st, Hamas on list
In letter to Israeli envoy Danny Danon, Antonio Guterres cites ‘grave concern’ over sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees in prisons; Danon calls idea ‘unfounded’ and ‘absurd’
By Nava Freiberg
NYPD officers bring out the body of Didarul Islam, who was shot and killed by a gunman earlier this evening, from New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Hospital, early Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in New York City. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
July 29, 2025, 9:30 am
Gunman kills 4, including off-duty police officer, in shooting at NYC office tower
Motive not yet known in attack at building housing financial firms, NFL headquarters; Israel’s UN ambassador calls violence ‘unacceptable’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinians make their way along al-Rashid street in western Jabalia on July 23, 2025, after receiving humanitarian aid from an aid distribution point in the northern Gaza Strip. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
July 24, 2025, 1:42 am
UN and Israel trade blame on Gaza aid issues as criticism grows over hunger crisis
After Israel blames UN for aid bottleneck, spokesperson says approvals haven’t been granted to pick up or distribute aid from sites in Strip; also rules out UN cooperation with GHF
By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff
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