UN spokesman doesn’t name Albanese but refutes controversial comment on press freedom

Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, didn’t name Francesca Albanese in response to a question from JNS about the special rapporteur’s comment that appeared to partly justify an attack on journalists. Read more

Author of disputed Gaza famine report has lengthy history of anti-Israel statements

An author of a controversial report determining a famine has taken hold in parts of Gaza has a history of anti-Israel and pro-Iran rhetoric. Read more

Hostage’s brother tells UN Security Council its silence about ‘monstrous cruelty is complicity’

A multi-panelled monitor was set up in the round of the United Nations Security Council chamber in Manhattan, affording Ilay David the chance to address the body at eye level. Read more

Israeli envoy condemns ‘glaring silence’ from UN agencies

Reut Shapir Ben-Naftaly, political coordinator for the Israeli mission to the United Nations, criticised several U.N. agencies during a U.N. Security Council meeting on Wednesday, including the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which she said “has continued to abandon all semblance of neutrality and impartiality.” Read more

ICC rejects Israeli request to vacate warrants, suspend investigation of Netanyahu, Gallant 

The International Criminal Court, an independent court in The Hague that is not part of the United Nations, said on Wednesday that it rejected Israel’s request that it withdraw or vacate the arrest warrants it sought for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant. Read more

UN ‘collaborated with Hamas,’ had ‘monopolistic’ aid oversight: senior US official 

The United Nations, which “has never had a competitor,” collaborated with Hamas and had several staffers who participated in the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, a senior U.S. State Department official told reporters on Tuesday. Read more

Focus needed on liberators of concentration camps

As Holocaust survivors continue to dwindle 80 years after the Holocaust, so do the ranks of those who liberated the Nazi concentration camps in Europe. Read more

Global dismissal of Oct 7 sexual crimes pushed freed hostage Amit Soussana to go public with her story

The freed Israeli hostage Amit Soussana, whom the U.S. State Department decorated with an International Women of Courage Award on April 1, told JNS that the story of her survival of sexual assault resonates so much among the stories of Oct. 7 heroism due to widespread efforts to claim that such experiences never occurred. Read more

Freed hostage Eli Sharabi to address UN Security Council on Thursday

Freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi is scheduled to brief the U.N. Security Council on Thursday morning. Read more

Very serious allegation,’ UN says of reports hostages held at its sites in Gaza

Reports that freed Israeli hostages had been held in United Nations shelters in Gaza amount to “a very serious allegation,” Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, told JNS on Wednesday. Read more

Albanese report slammed as ‘gross perversion of history,’ ‘weaponizing Holocaust comparisons’

Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, presented a new report to the United Nations General Assembly which purports to provide “clearly identifiable” proof that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians. Read more

Abbas calls Temple Mount ‘exclusive property of Muslims’ in speech to UN General Assembly

In an address to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday morning, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas called the holiest Jewish site—the Temple Mount in Jerusalem—the “exclusive property of Muslims” and referred to Israel as a “terrorist state” that does not deserve membership in the United Nations. Read more

In General Assembly speech, UN head takes shots at Israel

António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, opened the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level debate week by repeatedly criticizing the Jewish state. Read more

UN adviser says Israel accused of ‘domicide, urbicide, scholasticide, medicide, ecocide’ in Gaza

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian rights who has a long history of antisemitic statements, said during a press conference on Monday that the Jewish state is accused of six kinds of offences in Gaza. Read more

Evidence against UNRWA staffers stronger than UN investigators let on

Several media outlets and critics of Israel noted that Monday’s release of results of an internal United Nations investigation stated that nine UNRWA staffers “may” have participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre. Read more

Pro-Israel protesters interrupt UN Security Council meeting, call for freeing hostages

As the United Nations Security Council met about the Israeli-Palestinian file on Wednesday, two women interrupted the proceedings calling for the hostages to be freed from Gaza. Read more

UNRWA head claims key allegation of Hamas collaboration lawsuit is false

The head of UNRWA, the United Nations’ embattled Palestinian-only aid and social services agency, told JNS it disputes a key section of a civil lawsuit filed against the agency by victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre. Read more

UN investigative unit probing allegations against anti-Israel official

The investigative unit of the United Nations opened a case probing whether pro-Hamas lobbying groups funded Francesca Albanese’s trips in 2023 to Australia and New Zealand. Read more

US envoy to the UN blasts Israel in Security Council speech

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Tuesday called out the expansion of Jewish neighbourhoods in Judea and Samaria as “an obstacle to the achievement of a two-state solution—the end state we all want to see.” Read more

UNSC adopts US-backed Gaza ceasefire resolution

The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution aimed at reaching a three-phase ceasefire deal to end the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Read more

After faulting ‘fog of war’ for cloudy Hamas casualty numbers, UN’s new stats still don’t appear to add up

A day after a U.N. spokesman attributed a nearly 100% overcounting of Gazan women and children casualties to “the fog of war,” the global body now says that the overall death toll in Gaza due to the war remains the same. Read more

UN blames ‘fog of war’ for major overcounting of Gazan child fatalities

The United Nations now claims that “the fog of war” is to blame for a major overstatement of the number of Gazan children who have been killed in the war. Read more

Israel’s UN ambassador says UN’s ‘days are numbered’

Israel’s envoy to the United Nations sharply criticized the global body on Wednesday, telling the U.N. General Assembly that the organization’s “days are numbered.” Read more

China, Russia veto US ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council

China and Russia vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution at the U.N. Security Council on Friday morning, saying the text didn’t go far enough in calling for a ceasefire in the war against Hamas in Gaza. Read more

Full Monday planned at UN with focus on US vetoes of ceasefire, UNRWA

The hyperfocus of the United Nations on the Israel-Hamas war will be on full display on Monday. Read more

Under scrutiny for Jew-hatred, Harvard hosts UN official who blames Jews for Oct. 7

Anti-Israel vultures of a feather flock together. Read more

‘Farce, desperate scheme to save UNRWA,’ critics slam UN review of its agency’s neutrality

Following allegations that a dozen employees of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East participated directly in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, the United States and other nations announced their suspension of future funds, pending an investigation. Read more

UN official, accused of silence on Oct. 7, to visit Israel to learn of Hamas sexual violence

Pramila Patten, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general on sexual violence in conflict, plans to arrive in Israel on Monday, the United Nations announced on Thursday. Read more

UN head: Netanyahu won’t answer my phone calls

António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday from Davos, Switzerland, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined to take his phone calls since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7. Read more

UN: No indication Hamas was building elaborate tunnel system

Despite the presence of a Hamas terror tunnel system in the Gaza Strip, now thought to be larger in scale than the London Underground, the United Nations insists it had no idea the tunnels were being built. Read more

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