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UNTSO
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UN-led)
Authorization date: 05/48
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UNSCO
The Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Authorization date: 06/94
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TIPH-2
Temporary International Presence in Hebron (Other)
Authorization date: 02/97
EUBAM Rafah
EU Border Assistance Mission at Rafah Crossing Point (EU)
Authorization date: 11/05
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EUPOL COPPS
EU Police Co-ordinating Office for Palestinian Police Support (EU)
Authorization date: 11/05
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United Nations workers observed a minute’s silence on Monday (13 November) to honour the more than 100 employees killed in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war began last month, the largest toll of humanitarian workers in the organisation’s 78-year history.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the idea of the Palestinian Authority governing Gaza once the Israel-Hamas war is over, a position at odds with the Biden administration.
White House says Israel commits to announcing each window at least three hours in advance.
In a television interview, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested Israel would take "security responsibility" for Gaza once the fighting stops.
The UN’s top relief official Martin Griffiths travelled to the Paris humanitarian conference on Gaza on Thursday to issue an appeal for a significant break in the fighting there, urging greater protection for displaced civilians.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights reiterated the call for an urgent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during a visit to the Rafah crossing and El Arish Hospital in Egypt on Wednesday.
Gaza might become an international protectorate after the war, the EU has said, adding that neither Palestinian group Hamas nor Israel should ever rule there again.
The Palestinian people ‘are at grave risk of genocide,’ UN special rapporteurs say. ‘The time for action is now.’
The UN chief on Tuesday said levels of aid allowed into the stricken Gaza Strip are “completely inadequate” to meet the rising needs of civilians trapped there amidst the intensifying fighting. Secretary-General António Guterres also reiterated his call for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” between Israeli forces and militants from Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and other militant groups.
The crisis sparked by the Hamas terrorist attack and ongoing Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip is a "political and humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions” said the UN’s independent human rights expert for the Occupied Palestinian Territory this week.