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TOPSHOT - Relatives of the Bibas family react as they take part in a demonstration called by the Jewish community demanding the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, in Buenos Aires on February 24, 2025. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP) (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Parading coffins of dead hostages in Gaza a violation of international law, says UN human rights official

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Albanese admits that UN ‘displays some bias’ against Israel in stormy TV interview

The top UN official said that accusations of antisemitism against her were orchestrated by Israel’s ‘squads of minions’ and indicated that she did not believe comparisons of Israel and Nazi Germany were antisemitic

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

Freed British hostage Emily Damari says she was held in Unrwa facilities

British-Israeli hostage told Keir Starmer that she was kept in UN-funded location

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Released hostage Emily Damari and her mother Mandy spoke to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Friday morning (Photo: Emily Cohen)

Trump nominee to UN defends Jewish settlers’ rights to live anywhere in West Bank

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik also said she would tackle bias at the UN

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Rep. Elise Stefanik at her confirmation hearing (Getty Images)

UN advisor Francesca Albanese suggests that LA fires and Gaza are ‘symptoms of the same disease’

The controversial official amplified a post claiming that the wildfires and ongoing conflict were ‘symptoms of the same disease’

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

Board of Deputies calls for Francesca Albanese’s dismissal after she endorses David Miller

The UN special rapporteur tweeted support for the disgraced academic in a now-deleted post

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UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, voiced her support for controversial academic David Miller in a now-deleted tweet. (Getty Images)

Wikipedia labels rescue of hostages held by Hamas a ‘massacre’

Anti-Israel editors cited material from controversial sources out to reportedly outweigh more balanced voices

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Freed hostage Andrey Kozlov, centre (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s words to Benjamin Netanyahu in 1984 are truer now than ever

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Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur, briefs reporters at U.N. headquarters (Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo/JNS)

Mother of British hostage accuses Starmer of putting ‘another nail in Emily’s coffin’

Mandy Damari slams government after UK supported UN’s unconditional ceasefire vote

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Mandy Damari accused the UK government of delivering “A message to Hamas that they can kill Emily. Another nail in her coffin.” (Getty Images)

Heads of UNRWA schools were Hamas members according to documents found by Israel

In October, the Knesset voted to ban UNRWA, with the Foreign Ministry calling the refugee agency ‘rotten’

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December 9, 2024 14:27

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United Nations

The unbearable lightness of Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell

‘Hamas eats like kings while hostages starve,’ Eli Sharabi tells UN

Watching Eli Sharabi address the UN was something I’ll never forget

UN silence on Hamas is deafening

Noa Argamani to make history as first freed hostage to address the UN Security Council

Parading coffins of dead hostages in Gaza a violation of international law, says UN human rights official

She was the UN’s special adviser on genocide. They didn’t want to listen to her

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