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Illustrative: Students snack during recess in the yard of the UNRWA Boys' School run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
January 13, 2026, 8:59 pm
Jerusalem severs ties with 7 UN agencies, citing anti-Israel bias
Sa’ar decries UN Women for ignoring sexual violence cases on Oct. 7, slams another agency for wastefulness, will examine ties with further UN organizations
By ToI Staff
Employees of United Nations agencies hold placards in front of the UN Offices Geneva, on September 18, 2025, to honor the memory of the 370 UN employees killed in Gaza, calling for the end to the Israel-Hamas war. (Elodie Le Maou/AFP)
September 19, 2025, 7:00 am
US, Israel dispute UN staffers’ impartiality on Gaza war as latter protest outside Geneva HQ
Documents show Israeli and US diplomats objected to briefing that thousands of United Nations employees held with anti-Israel special rapporteur accused of antisemitism
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, speaks to journalists in Rome, July 29, 2025. (AP Photo/ Gregorio Borgia)
September 15, 2025, 8:14 pm
IDF using ‘unconventional weapons’ to make Gaza City ‘unlivable,’ says UN’s Albanese
Anti-Israel rapporteur accuses international community of complicity in ‘ethnic cleansing’; Israel’s mission to the UN rejects remarks
By Reuters and ToI Staff
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
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, pictured at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD IX) in Yokohama, Japan, on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)
August 21, 2025, 12:55 pm
UN chief calls for immediate ceasefire, warns of casualties from Gaza City takeover
Israel announces blitz of visiting delegations in effort to combat growing isolation, as France, Germany and Jordan also slam Jerusalem’s Gaza plans
By Agencies, Nava Freiberg, Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 15, 2025, 4:13 pm
UN human rights office: E1 plan is illegal, settling occupied land is a war crime
Germany joins EU, UK, Arab states and rights groups in opposing West Bank construction that finance minister says will ‘bury the idea of a Palestinian state’; Netanyahu still mum
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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
Results of a UN General Assembly vote on a resolution for the Security Council to reconsider and support the full membership of Palestine into the United Nations, displayed at the UN headquarters in New York City on May 10, 2024. (Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
May 10, 2024, 9:10 pm
UN General Assembly adopts resolution boosting standing of Palestinian mission
Overwhelming vote urges UNSC to reconsider statehood bid; move gives Palestinians spot in UNGA’s member’s hall, but not voting rights; Israel slams ‘prize for Hamas’
By Reuters and Jacob Magid
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers remarks during a Security Council open debate on the maintenance of international peace and security at the UN headquarters in New York on November 20, 2023. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)
November 20, 2023, 10:33 pm
UN chief calls for interim Arab-US force to control Gaza after war
Guterres says United Nations protectorate would not work, but plan for post-war international force and eventual Palestinian Authority takeover already rejected by Netanyahu, Arabs
By AFP and ToI Staff
File: The UN Security Council holds a moment of silence before meeting on the Israel-Hamas war, at UN Headquarters in New York City, on November 10, 2023. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
November 15, 2023, 10:08 pm
UN Security Council approves resolution calling for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza
Resolution, which passes in fifth attempt, uses watered down language, does not mention ceasefire, calls for ‘immediate and unconditional release of all hostages’ held by Hamas
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Martin Griffiths, the UN's under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, meets with the Syrian foreign minister in Damascus on June 26, 2023. (Louai Beshara/AFP)
October 31, 2023, 7:36 am
Israel grants visas to UN officials despite pledge to deny them entry
‘We haven’t said categorically that we’re not giving visas,’ asserts Israeli envoy after outcry over UN chief’s remark that Hamas onslaught ‘did not happen in a vacuum’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters, September 20, 2023. (AP/Craig Ruttle)
September 21, 2023, 5:16 am
Meeting with UN chief, Netanyahu demands world body ‘change attitude’ toward Israel
Prime minister accuses United Nations of ‘baseless criticism’ of Jewish state; in talk with Palestinian president, secretary-general discusses ‘ending occupation’
By Luke Tress
File - UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses the UN, October 2022. (Screenshot/ YouTube, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 27, 2023, 11:35 pm
US Congress members call on UN leadership to remove antisemitic official
18 House representatives urge firing of Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, citing recent refusal to condemn terror, and call to end Commission of Inquiry into Israel
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 18, 2023. (Amanuel Sileshi/AFP)
February 22, 2023, 6:45 pm
UN secretary-general warns against Jerusalem ‘provocations,’ settlement expansion
At pro-Palestinian event, Antonio Guterres decries ‘unilateral actions’ and threats to status quo at holy sites; Palestinian envoy demands international action against Israel
By Luke Tress
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