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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 526

Antonio Guterres

A Palestinian man holds a baby as a medic administers a polio vaccine at a camp for displaced people in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on February 23, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
February 27, 2025, 4:43 pm
Gaza polio vaccination drive reached 600,000 children in five days, WHO says
UN health agency chief says ceasefire enabled even more children to be reached than in previous rounds, including those who may have been missed due to security issues
By AFP and ToI Staff
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers a speech at the opening of the 58th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, on February 24, 2025. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
February 24, 2025, 3:18 pm
UN chief ‘gravely concerned’ over Israeli settler violence in West Bank
Secretary-General Guterres tells Human Rights Council of his worries at recent calls to annex the territory as well as other ‘violations’
By Agencies
A man in northern Israel holds a sign portraying Shiri Silberstein Bibas, whose body Hamas falsely claimed to have released, and her sons, Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir, whose remains were in fact handed over, on February 20, 2025. His sign reads 'The Bibas family: We will not forgive and we will not forget!' (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
February 21, 2025, 2:30 pm
US threatens ‘annihilation’ after Hamas returns bodies of Bibas boys without their mother
Argentina declares 2 days of mourning as terror group returns bodies of dual-citizens Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir, along with body that Hamas falsely claimed was mother Shiri Bibas
By ToI Staff and Agencies
File: Trucks carrying UNRWA humanitarian aid line up to cross the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
January 31, 2025, 10:50 pm
UNRWA says it is carrying on aid work despite Israeli ban on agency
Official says organization ‘continues to be the backbone of the international humanitarian response’ in Gaza
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Left to right: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, Pool), Volodymyr Zelensky (Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP), Ursula Von Der Leyen (AP Photo/Omar Havana)
January 19, 2025, 11:17 pm
‘A deeply meaningful moment,’ it ‘fills our hearts with hope’: World hails hostage release
From Starmer to Zelensky, Thailand to the EU, leaders laud the return of the captives and urge full implementation of nascent truce
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, right, shakes hands with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, January 18, 2025. (Lebanese Presidency / AFP)
January 18, 2025, 4:30 pm
Lebanon’s president: IDF must withdraw by Jan. 26, end ‘continued violations’ of truce
UN chief meets newly-elected Joseph Aoun in Beirut, hails ‘new chapter of peace’; Hezbollah chief urges government to confront Israel over ‘more than hundreds’ of violations
By ToI Staff and Agencies
UN chief Antonio Guterres walks past an honor guard of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at the peacekeeping force's headquarters in southern Lebanon's Naqura, near the Israeli border, January 17, 2025. (Pascual Gorriz / UNIFIL / AFP)
January 17, 2025, 10:41 pm
UN chief: UNIFIL found 100 Hezbollah arms caches in south Lebanon since truce began
Only peacekeepers, Lebanese military should be in the area, says Guterres, calling for end to Israeli ‘occupation’; Macron, Aoun also demand IDF withdraw, as Jan. 26 deadline looms
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addresses a press conference in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on October 22, 2024. (Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP)
October 27, 2024, 8:21 pm
Iran says it had advance notice of IDF strikes; UN Security Council to meet Monday
Tehran invokes UN charter to assert right to respond; Israeli envoy Danny Danon says claim that Saturday attack violated international law ‘ridiculous,’ Israel must defend itself
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein (not in picture) during his visit to Baghdad, Iraq, October 13, 2024. (AP/Anmar Khalil)
October 16, 2024, 1:44 pm
Iran says it will respond ‘decisively’ if Israel attacks, asks UN to intervene
Tehran’s FM tells UN chief Guterres that if Israel retaliates to Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack, Iran will strike back hard; Jerusalem reportedly decides on targets to attack
By AFP, ToI Staff and Reuters
Vehicles from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol in Marjayoun in southern Lebanon on October 12, 2024. (AFP)
October 15, 2024, 2:27 am
Defying Israel, UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon insists it is staying put
Security Council expresses concern over incidents in which UNIFIL troops were hurt, doesn’t single out Israel; Netanyahu says claims IDF targeting Blue Helmets ‘completely false’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on UN to withdraw peacekeepers from south Lebanon on October 13, 2024 (Screen grab/GPO)
October 13, 2024, 4:42 pm
Netanyahu: UN must withdraw south Lebanon peacekeepers from combat zones
PM accuses Hezbollah of using UNIFIL as ‘human shields,’ urges Guterres to get take the forces ‘out of harm’s way,’ far from terror group’s strongholds
By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies
UN Secretary General António Guterres at a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at the United Nations headquarters on October 2, 2024 in New York (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)
October 4, 2024, 12:15 pm
Security Council backs Guterres after Israeli move to label UN chief ‘persona non grata’
Members release statement emphasizing need for all states in international body ‘to have a productive and effective relationship with the secretary-general’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Israel Katz (R) welcomes his French counterpart Stephane Sejourne in Jerusalem on April 30, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)
October 4, 2024, 12:42 am
France slams Israel’s ‘unjustified’ move to label UN leader ‘persona non grata’
Paris stresses its ‘full support for and confidence’ in Antonio Guterres, who drew Israeli fire for failing to specifically condemn Iran’s missile attack in initial response
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Israel Katz (left) attends a vote at the Knesset in Jerusalem, September 30, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks at the UN Security Council meeting at the UN in New York, September 27, 2024. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)
October 2, 2024, 5:35 pm
FM Katz bars UN chief Guterres from Israel for failing to condemn Iran over missile attack
Germany summons Tehran’s envoy to denounce barrage, says Katz move unhelpful; other Israeli officials’ doubt he has the authority to ban Guterres
By ToI Staff, Agencies and Jacob Magid
Members of Israel's Home Front Command and police forces inspect a crater left by an exploded projectile at a heavily damaged school building on October 1, 2024, after Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
October 2, 2024, 12:10 am
West denounces Iran’s missile attack on Israel, cautions against further escalation
UN chief issues condemnation of broadening conflict but is mum on Iran attack; Hamas praises ‘revenge for the blood of our heroic martyrs’
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
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