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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

UN Human Rights Committee

A boy pushes a wheelchair carrying water containers past the rubble of destroyed buildings along a street in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 8, 2024. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
July 9, 2024, 9:50 pm
Israel rejects accusations by UN rights experts that it weaponized starvation in Gaza
Jerusalem rebuts claims, pointing to its facilitation of large amounts of aid and various predictions of famine by independent studies being proven untrue
By AFP and ToI Staff
Chairwoman of the 'The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel,' South Africa's Navi Pillay speaks during a briefing to UN member states about ongoing investigations of the Commission at the UN offices in Geneva, on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
June 12, 2024, 12:52 pm
UN reports accuse Israel of ‘extermination,’ crimes against humanity; Hamas of war crimes
Israel rejects findings that ‘outrageously and repugnantly attempt to draw a false equivalence between IDF soldiers and Hamas terrorists,’ accuses UN commission of systematic bias
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli hostages pictured after their rescue from Hamas captivity in Gaza on June 8, 2024. From left: Shlomi Ziv (IDF); Andrey Kozlov and Almog Meir Jan (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90); and Noa Argamani (Courtesy).
June 12, 2024, 12:34 am
All four rescued hostages released from hospital as UN raises possible ‘war crimes’
Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv clear post-captivity medical tests; rights body says Israel, Hamas may both be responsible for civilian deaths in rescue raid
By Agencies and ToI Staff
View of the Jordan Valley from a military post near the West Bank settlement of Hemdat. The Jordanian villages of al-Balawinah and Kuraymah are seen in the distance, November 28. 2022. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
March 22, 2024, 4:17 pm
Israel appropriates 1,976 acres of land in Jordan Valley, declaring it state land
Announcement follows West Bank settlement expansion earlier in March; new status will allow for hundreds of housing units to be constructed in addition to commerce zones
By ToI Staff and AFP
UN commissioners Chris Sidoti, left, Navi Pillay, center, and Miloon Kothari, right, discuss their probe into Israel and the Palestinians at the United Nations in New York, October 27, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 16, 2024, 5:21 pm
Israel forbids doctors from speaking to UN group investigating Oct. 7 atrocities
Officials say commission of inquiry formed by UN Human Rights Council in 2021 is led by three people with antisemitic and anti-Israel views
By Renee Ghert-Zand
United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk answers AFP journalists' questions during an interview at his office, in Geneva, on January 4, 2023. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
July 27, 2023, 2:18 pm
UN human rights chief tells Israel to ‘heed the calls’ of anti-overhaul protesters
In statement, Volker Turk lauds mass demonstrations, says they ‘demonstrate the extent of public disquiet at the extent of fundamental legislative changes’
By ToI Staff
Hillel Neuer, UN Watch executive director. (Michal Fattal/Flash 90)
October 7, 2022, 10:56 pm
Pro-Israel watchdog group accuses senior UN official of trying to block its work
UN Watch files complaint to UN chief against senior Human Rights Council’s Eric Tistounet, alleging he repeatedly harassed and discriminated against the group and its leader
By ToI Staff and Luke Tress
Dr. Hend Al-Muftah, Qatar's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva. (Screen capture/YouTube)
September 29, 2022, 5:57 am
Qatari UN envoy deletes Twitter account after antisemitic, homophobic tweets exposed
Move follows Hend Al-Muftah’s failed bid to become chair of human rights forum after watchdog revealed her history of hateful social media posts
By Ron Kampeas
Dr. Hend Al-Muftah, Qatar's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva. (Screen capture/YouTube)
September 19, 2022, 11:50 pm
Qatar’s UN ambassador denied human rights post after antisemitic, homophobic tweets
Hend Al-Muftah rejected from position after slew of tweets uncovered that called Jews ‘our enemies,’ blamed Israel for 9/11 attacks and labeled gays ‘disgusting’
By Ash Obel
Demonstrators supporting Tibetans, Uyghurs and Hong Kongers take part in a protest against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in London, on October 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
August 25, 2022, 2:16 pm
UN report on abuse against Uighurs in Xinjiang might miss its deadline
Outgoing human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says her office is ‘trying’ to meet self-imposed deadline for long-awaited report on China’s alleged abuses in region
By Jamey Keaten
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following their talks in Moscow, on April 26, 2022. (Maxim Shipenkov/ Pool/ AFP)
July 31, 2022, 10:27 pm
Lapid urges UN chief to disband ‘tainted’ Gaza probe over remarks deemed antisemitic
In a letter, the prime minister denounces ‘Jewish lobby’ comments made by member of the UN Commission of Inquiry now investigating Israel’s May 2021 fight with Hamas
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A general view of the room hosting a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on Ukraine, in Geneva, on May 12, 2022. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
May 12, 2022, 7:53 pm
UN Human Rights Council launches probe into alleged Russian war crimes
Council votes 33-2 — with only China and Eritrea opposing the measure and 12 others abstaining — following testimony from Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister
By AFP
Volunteers load bodies of civilians killed in Bucha onto a truck to be taken to a morgue for investigation, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
May 12, 2022, 3:24 pm
Addressing UN rights council, Ukraine says Russia inflicting ‘pure evil’
Top rights body set to vote on draft resolution calling for probe into alleged war crimes by Moscow since invasion’s start, with a view to holding those responsible to account
By AFP
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)
March 14, 2022, 11:03 pm
UN human rights chief condemns Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 81 on a single day
Bachelet says executions may be related to the ongoing conflict against Iran-backed Houthis and to attempts to silence ‘freedom of expression and peaceful assembly’
By AFP
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
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