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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Stephane Dujarric

File: Graduate students take part in a parade in support of the Houthi rebel group in Sanaa, Yemen, June 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
June 10, 2024, 10:31 pm
Yemen’s Houthis claim to nab US-Israeli spy network using aid agencies as cover
Iran-backed rebels say CIA-linked ring carried out espionage activities for years, a week after they announced arrest of 11 UN staff as part of crackdown on non-government bodies
By Agencies
People inspect the damage in the rubble of buildings damaged during Israeli strikes in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on February 12, 2024. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
February 13, 2024, 1:40 am
UN ‘will not be party’ to Rafah evacuation due to lack of safe refuge in Gaza
Secretary-general’s spokesperson says not enough humanitarian aid entering Strip, ‘may last us just days,’ amid looming offensive in southernmost city
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this 9 January 2005 file photo, Palestinian women guard the ballot boxes for the Palestinian Authority Election. ( Sharon Perry/Flash90)
April 23, 2021, 8:15 am
UN urges Israel to allow East Jerusalem voting in Palestinian elections
Spokesman notes the ‘importance’ of a democratic process in ‘all parts of the occupied Palestinian territory’; PA activity normally banned from the city; elections may be postponed
By AFP and ToI Staff
A woman straddles a man in the back of a United Nations vehicle in a video clip that was shared widely online on June 26, 2020. The video is believed to be from Tel Aviv and the image has been pixelated by the Times of Israel. (Screenshot/Twitter)
June 27, 2020, 1:46 am
UN investigating ‘abhorrent’ video said to show sex act in vehicle in Tel Aviv
Clip appears to depict woman straddling man in back seat of official United Nations vehicle in Israel; spokesperson says investigation ‘moving very quickly’
By ToI Staff
United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov at a press conference at the UNSCO offices in Gaza City, September 25, 2017. (Adel Hana/AP)
June 6, 2020, 12:23 am
UN seeks meeting of Mideast mediators on Israel-Palestinians as annexation looms
United Nations’ envoy to region wants urgent summit of so-called Quartet before Netanyahu moves ahead with partial West Bank sovereignty bid
By Edith M. Lederer
Farmers work in the plain of Marjayoun on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Khiam, opposite the Israeli town of Metula, along the border with Israel, on August 26, 2019. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)
August 26, 2019, 11:56 pm
UN urges restraint as Lebanon set to file complaint alleging Israeli violations
As tensions spike between Jerusalem and Beirut following drone strike on Hezbollah stronghold, Hariri tells envoys of Security Council members: ‘Israel must be held responsible’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Palestinian woman outside the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza City, August 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra/File)
January 16, 2018, 8:29 am
UN defends Palestinian refugee agency, says its work ‘is critical’
United Nations spokesperson says UNRWA ‘will have to find other sources’ if Trump administration cuts funding
By AP and ToI Staff
Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon speaks next to a picture of slain Border Police officer Hadas Malka at the United Nations on June 29, 2017. (Courtesy)
June 29, 2017, 10:46 pm
Danon slams PA for legitimizing terror groups at UN event
Israeli envoy says Palestinians ‘have no shame’ after senior PLO official claims Hamas, PFLP are not terrorist groups
By ToI Staff
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Cairo on February 15, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
May 30, 2017, 10:40 pm
UN chief: Denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism
In meeting with Simon Wiesenthal Center, Secretary General Guterres rejects efforts to deny Jewish history in the Holy Land
By ToI Staff
Palestinians inaugurate a square to commemorate Dalal Mughrabi, a Palestinian terrorist who killed dozens of Israeli civilians in a 1978 bus hijacking in Israel, seen in portrait, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on March 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
May 28, 2017, 7:38 pm
UN chief pulls support for Palestinian women’s center named after terrorist
Secretary-General Guterres says agency no longer affiliated with West Bank facility over its ‘glorification of terrorism’
By ToI Staff
Following a demonstration to show support for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, a Palestinian protester jumps near a burning tire during clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, April 17, 2017. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
April 18, 2017, 10:38 pm
UN says watching Palestinian prisoner hunger strike closely
Spokesperson calls for both sides to show restraint, says inmates should be treated in humane manner
By AFP and ToI Staff
Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
March 16, 2017, 4:18 am
US will leave UN Human Rights Council if it doesn’t reform
State Department says it wants ‘greater accountability and transparency’ in body long seen by US as a haven for rights abusers and obsessed with Israel
By Edith M. Lederer
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, August 22, 2016, at the trial of alleged al-Qaeda-linked Islamist leader Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi over the destruction of historic mausoleums in the Malian desert city of Timbuktu. (AFP/ANP/Patrick Post)
October 21, 2016, 8:35 am
South Africa to withdraw from International Criminal Court
Decision follows legal battle over Pretoria’s failure to arrest Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir last year
By Edith M. Lederer
A panel on Jerusalem that was removed by UN officials from an exhibit on Israel prepared by the Israeli Mission to the UN and StandWithUs set to be displayed April 4, 2016. (Israeli Mission to the UN)
May 20, 2016, 8:31 am
Arabs demand UN remove Jerusalem panel from Israel exhibit
Reference to ‘the spiritual and physical capital of the Jewish people’ sparks ire for ‘purport[ing] to assert Israeli sovereignty’
By Edith M. Lederer
After the UN banned a display about Zionism from an Israeli exhibition at its headquarters, another display protesting the decision was set up in New York, April 4, 2016. (Courtesy of StandWithUs)
April 5, 2016, 10:31 pm
‘Miscommunication’ behind ban of Zionism display, UN says
Secretary general’s office says panel on the ‘liberation movement of the Jewish people’ was not disallowed at NY exhibition
By Andrew Tobin
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