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UN experts horrified at blatant disregard for health rights in Gaza following deadly raid on Kamal Adwan hospital

Posted on January 3, 2025January 3, 2025 | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, today called for an end to blatant disregard of the right to health in Gaza, following last week’s raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital and the arbitrary arrest and detention of its director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.

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UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war

Posted on November 14, 2024November 14, 2024 | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians there, the UN Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices* said in a new report released today.

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UN experts warn international order on a knife’s edge, urge States to comply with ICJ Advisory Opinion

Posted on September 22, 2024September 22, 2024 | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

GENEVA (18 September 2024) – Over 50 days since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its historic Advisory Opinion, declaring that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory unlawful, UN experts* are warning that the edifice of international law stands upon a knife’s edge, with most States failing to take meaningful steps to comply with their international obligations reaffirmed in the ruling.

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Onslaught of violence against women and children in Gaza unacceptable: UN experts

Posted on May 8, 2024May 8, 2024 | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

GENEVA (6 May 2024) – UN experts* today condemned the continued and systematic onslaught of violence committed against Palestinians in Gaza, with most victims being women and children over the past seven months.

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Gaza is ‘running out of time’ UN experts warn, demanding a ceasefire to prevent genocide

Posted on November 3, 2023November 3, 2023 | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

GENEVA (2 November 2023) – Time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, UN experts warned today, expressing deep frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt plans to decimate the besieged Gaza strip.

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UN expert warns of new instance of mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, calls for immediate ceasefire

Posted on October 16, 2023October 16, 2023 | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

GENEVA (14 October 2023) – A UN human rights expert warned today that Palestinians are in grave danger of mass ethnic cleansing and called on the international community to urgently mediate a ceasefire between warring Hamas and Israeli occupation forces.

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Dismantle Israel’s carceral regime and “open-air” imprisonment of Palestinians: UN expert

Posted on July 15, 2023January 23, 2024 | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

GENEVA (10 July 2023) – Israel’s military occupation has morphed the entire occupied Palestinian territory into an open-air prison, where Palestinians are constantly confined, surveilled and disciplined,” a UN expert….

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Commission of Inquiry finds that the Israeli occupation is unlawful under international law

Posted on October 23, 2022January 23, 2024 | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

New York (20 October 2022) — There are reasonable grounds to conclude that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is now unlawful under international law due to its permanence and….

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Israel/Palestine: UN experts call on governments to resume funding for six Palestinian CSOs designated by Israel as ‘terrorist organisations’

Posted on April 26, 2022January 23, 2024 | The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

GENEVA (25 April 2022) – UN human rights experts* today called on the international community to take immediate and effective steps to protect and sustain the six Palestinian civil society….