UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday warned that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is "at a breaking point" and headed toward a one-State reality marked by perpetual occupation and inequality, unless the international community takes urgent, irreversible steps to implement the two-State solution.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the ceasefire agreement between Cambodia and Thailand following days of deadly fighting over their mutual border.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is alarmed by escalating health and food crises across Sudan, notably as cholera cases continue to rise in the locality of Tawila, North Darfur state.
A fragile de-escalation in Syria's Sweida region is "largely holding" after weeks of violence displaced 175,000 people, killed hundreds and devastated critical infrastructure – exposing deep fissures in the country's political transition.
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, MONUSCO, strongly condemned an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on civilians during the night of 26 to 27 July.
Welcome to our live coverage of the high-level international conference at UN Headquarters, aimed at advancing practical steps toward achieving a two-State solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Mandated by the General Assembly, the three-day meeting features plenaries, working groups and interventions from senior UN officials and Member States. UN News app users can follow here.
A world in which a sovereign State of Palestine and Israel co-exist peacefully seems a distant prospect, particularly in light of the 7 October 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel and the subsequent Israeli bombardment of Gaza. A high-level UN conference opening on 28 July will, nevertheless, serve as the latest UN-backed attempt to find a way to end the conflict.
As starvation worsens in war-torn Gaza, UN agencies repeated warnings on Monday that Israel's decision to support a "one-week scale-up" of aid is far from enough to reverse deadly malnutrition rates in the enclave.
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