News on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel and Lebanon
Below is the list of news releases, speeches, videos and other statements by the UN Human Rights Office and other UN human rights mechanisms regarding the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel and Lebanon since 7 October 2023.
For more information on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel and Lebanon see their country pages: State of Palestine | Israel | Lebanon
Office of the High Commissioner
Press releases, briefing notes, comments
- Press releases | 29 October 2024
Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence on deadly Gaza strike - Press releases | 25 October 2024
Türk says world must act as darkest moment of Gaza conflict unfolds - Press releases | 22 October 2024
Beirut hospital attack: Civilians must be protected - Press releases | 11 October 2024
Middle East: Situation for civilians getting worse by the day - Press releases | 01 October 2024
Lebanon: Concerns widening hostilities in Middle East will unleash human rights catastrophe
Statements and speeches
- Statement and speeches | 15 August 2024
Gaza: Turk pleads for end to fighting as death toll passes 40,000 - Statement and speeches | 19 July 2024
Observations from Gaza by Head of UN Human Rights office for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Ajith Sunghay - Statement and speeches | 11 June 2024
Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza - Statement and speeches | 13 May 2024
Urgent call for ceasefire and release of hostages - Statement and speeches | 6 May 2024
Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: Rafah threat is inhumane, says UN Human Rights Chief
Videos
- Press briefing I 16 November 2023
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk briefs States on his visit to the Middle East | OHCHR.
For continuity, please visit the UNOG Newsroom - Press conference I 10 November 2023
Press conference by UN High Commissioner Volker Türk at the end of his visit to Amman, Jordan - Media stakeout I 8 November 2023
Following his visit to the Rafah crossing, in Egypt, UN Human Rights chief Volker Türk, in Cairo said, “in Rafah I have witnessed the gates to a living nightmare,” Türk said. - Story I 8 November 2023
“The Rafah crossing has been the symbolic lifeline for the last month for the 2.3 million people in Gaza (..)These are the gates to a living nightmare.” Türk said during at Rafah Border Crossing in Egypt. - Story I 7 November 2023
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk began a visit to Egypt and the region.
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UN Mechanisms
Special Procedures
- Press Releases | 31 October 2024
The long human tragedy of the Nakba and Israel's settler colonial genocide – UN expert - Press Releases | 25 October 2024
A tragedy within a tragedy: UN experts alarmed by harrowing conditions for Palestinians with disabilities trapped in Gaza - Press Releases | 16 October 2024
Israel must stop violent settler attacks on Palestinian farmers that threaten their olive harvest, say UN experts - Media Statement | 11 October 2024
‘The international order is breaking down in Gaza’: UN experts mark one year of genocidal attacks on Palestinians - Press Releases | 7 October 2024
UN experts call for end of violence and accountability after year of human loss and suffering and blatant disregard for international law
Treaty Bodies
- Press Releases | 22 August 2024
UN Committee calls for stronger global engagement to address racial discrimination in the Palestine-Israel dispute - Press Releases | 27 May 2024
Gaza: Palestinians with disabilities fear being killed first, says UN - Press Releases | 21 March 2024
Gaza: Halt the war now to save children from dying of imminent famine, UN Committee warns - Press Releases | 21 December 2023
Gaza Strip: States are obliged to prevent crimes against humanity and genocide, UN Committee stresses - Press Releases | 13 December 2023
State of Palestine and Israel must end violence against civilians and return to negotiation, UN ad hoc Conciliation Commission urges
Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
- Press Releases | 27 October 2023
Grave violence in Israel and Gaza has outraged the conscience of humanity, UN Commission of Inquiry says - Statements and speeches | 24 October 2023
Statement by Navi Pillay, chair of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel (PDF) - Press Releases | 16 October 2023
Civilians are the primary victims of increased violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, says the UN Commission of Inquiry - Press Releases | 10 October 2023
Commission of Inquiry collecting evidence of war crimes committed by all sides in Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories since 7 October 2023