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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 340

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Families attend the funeral of slain hostage Eden Yerushalmi at a cemetery in Petach Tikva, September 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 3, 2024, 10:04 pm
UN Security Council to discuss Gaza hostages after 6 captives ‘summarily executed’
Israeli envoy Danny Danon requests debate, laments it took ‘barbaric, cold-blooded murder’ of 6 hostages to prompt meeting; UN human rights chief calls for probe
By Agencies and ToI Staff
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk listens to delegates after delivering his report of the situation in the West Bank and Gaza during the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on February 29, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
June 19, 2024, 2:55 pm
UN rights office: Israeli Gaza strikes may have ‘systematically violated’ laws of war
Report does not mention Hamas’s October 7 attack, cites six incidents with high casualty counts that it calls ’emblematic’ of a pattern of behavior on Israel’s part
By ToI Staff
Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, on February 29, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
March 8, 2024, 3:26 pm
UN rights chief says settlement expansion a war crime, prevents Palestinian state
Volker Turk slams ‘shocking new levels’ of settler violence since October 7, notes alignment of current hardline government’s policies with settler movement
By Reuters and ToI Staff
First Lady Michal Herzog, wife of President Isaac Herzog, attends a special prayer for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, seen in Tel Aviv, November 2, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 22, 2023, 5:36 pm
First Lady Herzog decries ‘unforgivable’ silence of rights groups over Hamas rapes
Writing in Newsweek, president’s wife says unwillingness of international organizations to believe Israeli women and speak up about sexual assaults by terrorists is ‘devastating’
By ToI Staff
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk delivers a speech at the opening of the 54th UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on September 11, 2023. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
October 10, 2023, 4:38 pm
UN human rights chief: Israel’s total siege of Gaza ‘prohibited’ by international law
High Commissioner Volker Turk says people’s dignity and lives must be respected, stresses Israeli obligation ‘to spare the civilian population and civilian objects’ during attacks
By AFP and ToI Staff
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk delivers a speech at the opening of the 54th UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on September 11, 2023. (Fabrice COFFRINI/AFP)
September 13, 2023, 9:46 pm
UN rights chief implicitly attacks Musk’s ‘trolling campaign’ against ADL
Volker Turk also urges more action against online hate speech; billionaire says anti-defamation group makes baseless accusations of antisemitism
By AFP
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk at a news conference in Khartoum, Sudan, November 16, 2022. (Marwan Ali/AP)
February 21, 2023, 4:47 pm
UN rights chief urges ‘pause’ to Israeli judicial overhaul; PM pans ‘absurd’ remarks
High Commissioner for Human Rights warns proposals will undermine judiciary’s ability to act ‘as an effective institutional check on executive and legislative power’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Twitter headquarters on the intersection of Market Street and 10th Street on November 4, 2022 in San Francisco, California. (David Odisho/Getty Images/AFP)
November 6, 2022, 2:23 am
UN urges Musk to ensure Twitter respects human rights, prevents hate speech
UN rights chief says free speech ‘is not a free pass,’ as world’s richest man sacks around half of social media platform’s workforce, including entire human rights team
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Palestinians hold a rally in front of the United Nations headquarters in Ramallah, August 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
August 30, 2022, 8:49 pm
UN rights chief accuses Israel of ‘trying to hide’ by blocking monitors’ access
Outgoing head Bachelet blasts Jerusalem for denial of visas to staffers; Israel pans her for ‘once again attacking’ in final hours in office
By AFP and ToI Staff
A Palestinian child injured in the aftermath of Israeli air strikes receives treatment at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on August 6, 2022. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
August 11, 2022, 6:55 pm
UN rights chief decries ‘unconscionable’ killing of Palestinian children
Michelle Bachelet says 17 minors among the dead in recent Gaza fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad, many of whom IDF believes were killed by rocket misfires
By AFP and ToI Staff
A photo taken on January 4, 2014, shows Syrians walking along a severely damaged road in the northeastern city of Deir Ezzor (Ahmad Aboud/AFP)
June 28, 2022, 7:47 pm
Over 300,000 civilians killed in Syria’s 10-year civil war, UN says
Highest death toll estimate for conflict does not include tens of thousands of soldiers also dead
By Jamey Keaten
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet addresses a news conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on Dec. 1, 2021. (Sophie Garcia/AP)
May 23, 2022, 12:48 pm
UN human rights chief begins China visit amid concerns it’s a publicity ploy
Instead of thorough probe into alleged abuses, rights advocates fear Michelle Bachelet will get stage-managed tour including in troubled Xinjiang region; US says ‘no expectations’
By Laurie CHEN and Matthew WALSH
Members of the Adalah rights group delegation are seen in Jordan after meeting with a United Nations probe into war crimes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on March 31, 2022. (Courtesy: Adalah)
April 1, 2022, 4:33 pm
Arab Israeli delegation meets UN team probing Israel’s human rights violations
Group including ex-MK holds meeting in Jordan as Israel refuses to cooperate with probe, citing lead investigator’s anti-Israel bias
By Aaron Boxerman
Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum of Dubai in a video aired by the BBC, on February 16, 2021. (Screenshot/YouTube)
February 19, 2022, 8:00 pm
Year after ‘hostage’ video, Dubai princess assures UN she is well
Sheikha Latifa, who last year said she feared for her life, meets with rights chief Michelle Bachelet, seeks ‘respect for her privacy’
By Agnès PEDRERO
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 17, 2020. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
May 27, 2021, 3:21 pm
UN rights chief: Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza may constitute ‘war crimes’
But High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet notes IDF did take ‘precautions’ such as advance warning, says charge applies if attacks were indiscriminate in impact on civilians
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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