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US blocks UN Gaza ceasefire resolution over Hamas’ peace plan rejection

The American delegation was the lone Security Council member to vote against the measure, with the UK backing it

By JC Reporter

3 min read

Gaza

UN chief who made false claim about 14,000 babies dying doubles down on Gaza ‘starvation’

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

Mahmoud Hmoud has been elected to serve on the ICJ despite his previous comments regarding Israel (Image: UN Photo/Loey Felipe)

ICJ

UN hands ICJ role to Jordanian envoy who said Israel is at war ‘with the people of Gaza’

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Hamas

Foreign Office denies funding ‘Hamas-linked’ UNICEF programme

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

Gaza

Lords slam MPs for ‘grotesque inaccuracy’ over Gaza baby death claim

By Jane Prinsley

6 min read

Aid deliveries are set to resume in Gaza as Israel ends its two-month long blockade of the Strip (Image: Getty)

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The ‘14,000 dead babies’ smear shows how low Israel’s critics will sink

By Jake Wallis Simons

2 min read

A UN official's claim that 14,000 Palestinian children are at risk of starvation in the next two days has been debunked, with the figure actually projected across the next year (Image: Getty)

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UN forced to correct claim 14,000 Gazan children could die in 48 hours after it was debunked

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

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At every step, the UN has failed hostages and their families

This week, families of hostages came to New York to demand their loved ones bodies be returned

By Jonathan Harounoff

3 min read

May 16, 2025 17:29

Ruby Chen, father of Itay Chen, briefs the Security Council meeting on protection of civilians in armed conflict. (Loey Felipe)

Hostage families call on UN to act to bring their loved ones’ bodies home

Israeli ambassador Danny Danon said returning the dead should be a ‘universal obligation’

By JC Reporter

1 min read

May 16, 2025 09:16

UN Security Council to discuss return of hostage bodies for first time since October 7

‘Israel is demanding something basic, moral, human—to return our boys and girls home,’ said Danny Danon, Jerusalem’s envoy to the UN

By Vita Fellig

1 min read

May 15, 2025 13:34

The UN Security Council is set to discuss a resolution about the return of hostages' remains (Image: Getty)

Francesca Albanese reappointment ‘invalid’, NGO says

The anti-Israel adviser “holds no UN mandate, no immunity and can be sanctioned and denied entry,” according to Hillel Neuer of UN Watch

By JC Reporter

1 min read

May 2, 2025 16:10

Francesca Albanese, the UN's top advisor on Palestine, has seemingly suggested that the LA wildfires and Gaza War are 'connected' (Picture: Getty)

By Michael Thaidigsmann

Germany’s new coalition deal is disappointing for Israel and Jews

The gap between rhetoric and reality is especially stark when one compares the government programme to the election manifesto the centre right parties were elected on just two months ago

4 min read

April 10, 2025 16:19

Friedrich Merz, Germany's new chancellor s during an election campaign tour stop in February (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Fury as UN investigator Francesca Albanese keeps role

The Special Rapporteur for the Palestinians previously made comments about a ‘Jewish lobby’ controlling America

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

April 6, 2025 10:51

Francesca Albanese has admitted that the UN 'displays some bias' against Israel (Image: Getty)

Former diplomat claims UN is ‘haemorrhaging with antisemitism’

Robert Wood wished his successor luck in ridding the UN of Jew-hatred as he claimed it is ‘flowing through the veins’ of the institution

By Mike Wagenheim

3 min read

April 3, 2025 14:51

Robert Wood, former US deputy envoy to the UN, has claimed the institution is 'haemorraging with antisemitism' (Image: Getty)

By Gabriel Noronha

The UK and Europe must reinstate UN sanctions against Tehran

‘Western betrayal of the US allowed Iran to sell thousands of missiles and drones to Russia, which now rain down on Ukraine’

3 min read

April 3, 2025 14:36

UN sanctions could hold the key to stalling Iran's nuclear programme (Image: Getty)

Labour MP: No place for Albanese’s ‘abhorrent’ comments on the world stage

David Taylor told the JC that the prospective renewal of her term as Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories ‘goes against everything the UN stands for’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

April 1, 2025 10:59

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US blocks UN Gaza ceasefire resolution over Hamas’ peace plan rejection

UN chief who made false claim about 14,000 babies dying doubles down on Gaza ‘starvation’

UN hands ICJ role to Jordanian envoy who said Israel is at war ‘with the people of Gaza’

Foreign Office denies funding ‘Hamas-linked’ UNICEF programme

Lords slam MPs for ‘grotesque inaccuracy’ over Gaza baby death claim

The ‘14,000 dead babies’ smear shows how low Israel’s critics will sink

UN forced to correct claim 14,000 Gazan children could die in 48 hours after it was debunked

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