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Gaza: Israel must restore UN humanitarian system to stave off starvation, say UN experts

7 August 2025, GENEVA – To avert further deaths and inhuman suffering by starvation, Israel must immediately restore unimpeded access to Gaza by impartial humanitarian organisations, including the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the UN Office for...

UN experts call for immediate dismantling of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

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5 August 2025, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) operations, saying Palestinians are paying the ultimate price of the international community’s legal, political and moral failure. The experts recalled that...

US proposal to ‘take over’ Gaza would shatter fundamental rules of international order, warn UN experts

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11 December 2025, GENEVA – UN experts* today condemned shocking threats by US President Donald Trump to “take over” and “own” Gaza and move the Palestinian population elsewhere, using military force if necessary. “Such blatant violations by a major power would break...

REPORT: Global threats to freedom of expression arising from the conflict in Gaza

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In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression examines the impact of the conflict in Gaza on freedom of expression globally. She highlights attacks on journalists and media restrictions,...

7 October: UN experts call for end of violence and accountability after year of human loss and suffering and blatant disregard for international law

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7 October 2024, GENEVA – Marking the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, the Israeli attack against the Palestinian population in Gaza that followed and consequent expansion of violence to the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory and other countries in the region,...