This was expressed by the Foreign Office Spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan while responding to the reports regarding Pakistani journalists traveling to Israel. He clarified that Pakistani passports explicitly state they are not valid for travel to Israel, therefore, no such visit is possible under existing regulations. that Pakistan’s position on Israel remains unchanged, emphasizing that […]
“Nothing justifies the appalling manner in which Israel has conducted its military operations in Gaza which consistently breached international law”, said Volker Turk, while presenting a new report on the human rights situation in Gaza, the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The report by the UN Office […]
In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the government in Panama City referred to an article of the UN Charter precluding any member from “the threat or use of force” against the territorial integrity or political independence of another. The missive, distributed to reporters Tuesday, urges Guterres to refer the matter to the UN […]
But the Kremlin leader struck a hardline tone, warning the West it was an “illusion” to think Russia could be defeated on the battlefield and that any peace deal would have to recognize Russia’s control of swaths of Ukrainian territory. Putin was speaking at the end of the BRICS summit in the city of Kazan […]
The Israeli military said that after a lengthy hunt, troops had on Wednesday “eliminated Yahya Sinwar, in an operation in the southern Gaza Strip”. Hamas has not confirmed his death. Netanyahu, who vowed to crush Hamas at the start of the war, hailed Sinwar’s killing, saying: “While this is not the end of the war […]
The paper published with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) highlighted that poverty rates were three times higher in countries at war, as 2023 saw the most conflicts worldwide since the Second World War. The UNDP and the OPHI have published their Multidimensional Poverty Index annually since 2010, harvesting data from 112 countries […]
Peacekeepers in the southern village of Kfar Kila observed an Israeli army tank “firing at their watchtower”, UNIFIL said, adding that “two cameras were destroyed, and the tower was damaged” in what the force called “direct and deliberate fire on a UNIFIL position”. Israel carried out dozens of strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on […]
The Israeli military said its forces on Friday fired at a threat near a UN peacekeeping mission position. Israel and Hezbollah have been clashing in south Lebanon since last week when Israel announced “targeted” incursions into Lebanon against the Lebanese group, which is backed by Iran. Friday’s incidents came after peacekeeping mission UNIFIL said its […]
The appeal came a day after UNIFIL said it would not leave positions in the south despite what it said was an Israeli request to “relocate”. “UNIFIL is deeply concerned by recent activities by the IDF immediately adjacent to the Mission’s position 6-52, southeast of Maroun al-Ras… inside Lebanese territory,” it said in a statement […]
In the letter, Iran’s UN envoy Amir Saeid Iravani called on the Council to “take immediate and decisive action to stop Israel’s ongoing aggression and prevent… from dragging the region into full-scale war.” A spokesperson of Hezbollah has said that the resistance group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah was martyred in Israeli strike in Beirut. “Sayyed Hassan […]
