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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Geneva

File: October 7 survivor Sabine Taasa poses for a picture at a home in Netanya, on January 28, 2024. (MARCO LONGARI / AFP)
September 4, 2024, 9:07 pm
Oct. 7 survivor tells UN to ‘stop blaming us’ for war, focus on harm to Israeli kids
Sabine Taasa, whose husband and son were murdered in Hamas onslaught, describes horrors of massacre to children’s rights panel, urges it to focus on Israeli youth, not just Gazan
By AFP and ToI Staff
From left, Ary Hammerman of White Plains, New York, Ali Salman from Ghajar, in the Golan Heights, and Tina Shammas of Nazareth in the West Bank, pose for a photo after an interview as part a Geneva junket for the Jerusalem Peacebuilders program in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaten)
July 27, 2024, 6:29 am
Israeli, Palestinian teens meet in Geneva to talk prospects for peace after Oct. 7
Coexistence organizations have been devastated since the Hamas massacre, but teenage delegation of the Jerusalem Peacebuilders Program insists war won’t solve conflict
By Jamey Keaten
Demonstrators calling upon the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to take action for the release of hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 and currently held in the Gaza Strip, outside the ICRC offices in Tel Aviv on November 9, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
November 20, 2023, 11:33 pm
Red Cross ‘cannot force its way in’ to see hostages, but critics say it could do more
ICRC says it can’t visit Gaza hostages unless Hamas allows it to do so, but government and families say it could exert more diplomatic pressure, including with Egypt and Qatar
By Renee Ghert-Zand
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger delivers remarks during a press briefing in Avully near Geneva, on June 7, 2023. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
November 14, 2023, 3:02 pm
Red Cross chief to meet families of hostages held by Hamas
Mirjana Spoljaric says advocating for captives’ release a ‘key priority;’ ICRC has spoken to terror group about freeing prisoners; foreign minister Cohen to attend Geneva meeting
By AFP and ToI Staff
From left to right: Avera Mengistu's mother Agarnesh Mengistu, his sister Tsige Engidaw, Lt. Hadar Goldin's mother Leah Goldin, First Sergeant Oron Shaul's brother Ofek Shaul, Hisham Al-Sayed's father Shaaban Al-Sayed and mother Manal Al-Sayed pose in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, on July 5, 2023. - (GABRIEL MONNET / AFP)
July 6, 2023, 8:22 am
Families of Israelis held in Gaza visit Geneva, seeking help from UN, Red Cross
Relatives meet with UN human rights chief Volker Turk, and vice-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross Gilles Carbonnier
By AFP and ToI Staff
Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz (left) and his lawyer Daniel Kinzer arrive at a courthouse in Geneva, Switzerland, August 29, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
August 29, 2022, 11:51 am
Israeli diamond magnate appeals corruption conviction in Switzerland
Lawyers ask court to throw out testimony from a former first lady of Guinea that contributed to his 5-year sentence for corruption, noting they were unable to question her
By Jamey Keaten
The United Nations flag waves in the wind on the top of a UN building in Geneva, Switzerland, June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
May 23, 2022, 6:14 pm
Russian diplomat at UN resigns, slams Moscow’s ‘aggressive war’
In scathing letter to Russia’s diplomatic mission in Geneva, veteran consul Boris Bondarev says he’s never ‘been so ashamed of my country’
By Jamey Keaten
Sudanese Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan speaks during a press conference at the General Command of the Armed Forces in Khartoum, on October 26, 2021. (Ashraf Shazly/AFP)
November 11, 2021, 8:06 pm
Tightening grip on power, Sudanese general taps himself to head governing body
Post-coup transitional council includes former parliamentarian Abou al-Qassem Bortoum, a prominent supporter of normalization with Israel
By Agencies
People chant slogans during a protest in Khartoum, amid ongoing demonstrations against a military takeover in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)
November 5, 2021, 2:55 pm
UN human rights body holds urgent session to discuss Sudan’s coup
‘The actions of the Sudanese military are a betrayal of the Sudanese revolution,’ says British envoy in Geneva
By AP
Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel's Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva. (Israel's Mission to UN and International Organizations in Geneva)
September 22, 2021, 3:02 pm
Abraham Accords partners issue joint UN human rights statement on women, peace
In first such initiative, Israel joins with Bahrain, UAE and Morocco for statement at meeting of international body’s Human Rights Council in Geneva
By Lazar Berman
French-Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz returns to Geneva's courthouse during his trial over allegations of corruption linked to mining deals in Guinea, on January 11, 2021. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
January 13, 2021, 12:31 pm
Diamond magnate accused of ‘telling tall tales’ at Swiss graft trial
Beny Steinmetz insists he never ordered bribes be paid to wife of late Guinean leader to secure mining contracts, claims he was only an adviser at company that bears his name
By AFP
French-Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz (L) arrives with his lawyers for his trial in Geneva on January 11, 2020. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
January 11, 2021, 8:41 am
Israeli diamond magnate’s Guinea graft trial begins in Geneva
Beny Steinmetz arrives in Switzerland to face charges and up to 10 years in prison over alleged bribes to secure mining contract; lawyer: ‘We will plead his innocence’
By Nina Larson
Israeli tycoon Beny Steinmetz seen at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, August 14, 2017. (Flash90)
December 6, 2020, 1:10 pm
Israeli diamond tycoon will attend Guinea graft trial in Geneva, says lawyer
Beny Steinmetz’s attorney insists his client ‘never paid a cent’ to a wife of African nation’s late president to secure mining contract
By ToI Staff and AP
The Palace of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, home of the UN Human Rights Council (CC BY-SA Henry Mühlpfordt/Wikipedia)
June 22, 2018, 7:52 pm
US says it is dedicated to ‘multilateralism’ despite leaving UN rights council
Geneva envoy stresses Washington is ‘engaged across the board in international organizations’
By AFP and ToI Staff
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at a Security Council meeting on the the situation in Syria at the United Nations, on March 12, 2018, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
March 24, 2018, 6:36 am
UN rights council scorecard: 5 Israel resolutions, Syria 2
US Ambassador Nikki Haley: ‘When Human Rights Council treats Israel worse than North Korea, Iran and Syria, it is the council itself that is foolish and unworthy of its name’
By AP
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