U.N. envoy says Gaza a prison for Palestinians
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Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into a   prison for Palestinians where life is "intolerable, appalling,   tragic" and the Jewish state appears to have thrown away the   key, a U.N. human rights envoy said on Tuesday.
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In the wake of escalating deadly violence in the Gaza Strip, the UN Security Council met Monday at an open debate to hear many speakers urge an end to conflict there.
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UNITED NATIONS - The Palestinians pushed for the quick adoption of a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an end to the massive Israeli thrust into the Gaza Strip, despite opposition by the United States...
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Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip and Palestinian attacks on Israelis have cost more than 200 lives and created a sense of "drift and foreboding" in the Middle East, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
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Israel&#39;s UN ambassador demanded Sunday that the world body investigate the actions of its top official in Gaza after Israeli accusations that Gaza militants used a UN vehicle to transport a homemade rocket.
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A top UN official calls for an international presence in Gaza to help ease what she says is mass despair and suffering.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Oct. 12, 2004 - An 11-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl was shot in the stomach and critically wounded by Israeli gunfire Tuesday as she sat inside a United Nations school in a Gaza refugee camp, UN officials said.
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Israel, the Palestinians and the UN should consider an international peacekeeping force in Gaza, the UN's new special envoy to the Middle East said today.
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A group of 12 United Nations agencies warn of an impending humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
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UNITED NATIONS, June 13 -- The United Nations' former top Middle East envoy has sharply criticized U.S. and Israeli efforts to isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian government, saying the policy has further radicalized Palestinian opinion and undercut long-term efforts to establish a viable Palestinian...
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Nasser al-Shaer was one of more than 30 Hamas officials detained by Israel over the past three months.
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The United Nations on Friday voiced concern at a reported hunger strike by over 2,900 Palestinian prisoners which was launched two weeks ago to demand an end to inhuman conditions.
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U.N. relief officials appealed Wednesday for safe access to the Palestinian refugee camp at the center of a standoff between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army
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The U.N.'s top human rights body on Thursday condemned Israeli military action in Gaza and the West Bank.
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The Hamas-led Palestinian government on Wednesday called for a prisoner swap with Israel to solve the Gaza crisis. It was the first time the government has proposed exchanging a captured Israeli soldier for prisoners held by Israel.
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GAZA CITY, Feb. 15 -- The eight-month closure of the Gaza Strip has created "grim and miserable" conditions that deprive Palestinians of their basic dignity, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Friday.
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The United Nations urged Israel on Friday to find a solution to a 13-day-old hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, reminding Israel of its obligations under international law and human rights conventions.