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UN alarmed after warning shots fired at foreign diplomats in the West Bank

Media reports said soldiers fired warning shots near the diplomats, who were on an official visit to view humanitarian conditions around the camp where...

Science180 Mathematically Reaches the Most Sought-After Milestone at the Intersection of Science and Faith...

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). American scientist Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel mathematically proved that the Earth was formed 2.82 days, the Moon 3.32 days, and the Sun...

General Assembly overwhelmingly passes resolution demanding end to Palestine occupation

Ambassadors in the UN General Assembly again discussed on Monday the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and the critical work of the UN agency...

Raid on North Gaza hospital ‘deeply disturbing’: WHO chief

“Since this morning’s reports of a raid of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, we have lost touch with the personnel there,” WHO chief...

Aid surging into Gaza ‘at scale’ but massive needs remain: OCHA, WHO

On day three of the ceasefire which entered into force on Sunday 19 January, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, welcomed the “surge” in...

Yemen: Security Council extends UN mission in crucial port city amid escalating Red Sea...

Adopted unanimously, the resolution extending the UN Mission to support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) until 28 January 2026, underscores the Mission’s critical role in...

Gaza: Four more hospitals shut amid ongoing Israeli offensive

“This brings the total functioning hospitals in Gaza to only 14…the situation at the remaining eight hospitals and one field hospital in the city...

LIVE COVERAGE: Day 3 of high-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday warned that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “at a breaking point” and headed toward a one-State reality marked by...

Syria risks grave division and destruction, Security Council hears

Geir Pedersen told the Security Council the country faced grave risk of further division that was in no Syrian’s interest.“As I brief you today,...

Israeli military operation displaces 40,000 in the West Bank

Several refugee camps are nearly empty after Israeli forces launched Operation Iron Wall on 21 January, making it the longest operation in the West...

How to raise rational children in our modern world

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). In our modern secular world, and with the many things that kids are taught at school and over which parents have...

UN calls for decisive steps to end conflict as Gaza and West Bank crises...

“Today the world looks on in horror as the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory continues to deteriorate to levels not seen in recent...

Abbas rejects Hamas attack, urges world to recognise Palestinian statehood

Speaking via video, he said more than 220,000 Palestinians had been killed or injured over nearly two years of fighting - most of them...

UN rights expert calls for immediate release of all Israeli hostages

Alice Edwards, the UN Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on Torture, also condemned the killing of six Israeli hostages earlier this month and called...

‘Humanitarian work, a moral obligation’: Retired doctor returns to face the ‘silent threat’ in...

After a successful career that lasted 43 years, during which he worked in Saudi Arabia, for the Palestinian Ministry of Health and then the...

Syria: Deadly sectarian violence displaces thousands in Sweida; healthcare attacked

Since 13 July, around 176,000 people have been displaced from Sweida,  according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).Mostly migrating...

Gaza: Paramedic still missing after aid worker killings, Palestinian Red Crescent Society calls for...

Last Sunday, a joint PRCS and UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) mission uncovered a shallow grave in Rafah. The bodies of eight PRCS paramedics, six civil...

UN rights office calls for end to Israel’s ‘illegal presence’ in the Occupied Palestinian...

The Palestinian co-director of the documentary, Basel Adra, delivered remarks to the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People....

How was the Moon formed?

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). A lot of expensive and complicated research has been conducted to unearth the real origin of the Moon, but to this...

Al Jazeera ban must be lifted, rights experts urge Palestinian Authority

The development comes one week after a court in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank ordered the closure of several Al Jazeera websites. A...

Winter rains and aid convoy obstacles worsen ordeal for one million Gazans

In an update, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, stressed that attacks on civilian infrastructure have not stopped, “particularly in North Gaza, where the...

Palestinians’ rights matter, says UNRWA chief

In a social media post on Friday, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that “people in Gaza have undergone systematic dehumanization” since the war there began.He...

Iraq: Security Council briefed on major milestones and ongoing challenges

“As you have heard many times by now, today’s Iraq is not the same as the Iraq of 20 years ago, or even five...