News on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel and Lebanon

• ​​​​Press briefing I 16 November 2023
  UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk briefs States on his visit to the Middle East | OHCHR.
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• 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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• 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
• Press Releases | 24 September 2024
  UN expert shocked by death of another Palestinian doctor in Israeli detention

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• 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

• 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