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02-May-2025 Conclusion of the public hearings – Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Request for Advisory Opinion) Armed conflict, Assistance, Occupation, Occupying Power, Palestine question
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International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

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04-Apr-2025 Human Rights Council Resolution: Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination (A/HRC/RES/58/27) Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Jerusalem, Occupying Power, Refugees and displaced persons, Self-determination A/HRC/RES/58/27
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Human Rights Council

Entity:

United Nations system

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Resolution

Country:

01-Apr-2025 Human Rights Council Draft Resolution: Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice (A/HRC/58/L.30/Rev.1) Access and movement, Accountability, Armed conflict, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupying Power A/HRC/58/L.30/Rev.1
Sources:

Human Rights Council

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Draft resolution

Country:

31-Mar-2025 Action by UN System and Intergovernmental Organizations Relevant to the Question of Palestine (March 2025 Monthly Bulletin) Access and movement, Armed conflict, Assistance, Ceasefire, Children, Gaza Strip, Hostages, House demolitions, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Hunger, Jerusalem, Legal issues, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Refugees and displaced persons, Settlements, UNRWA, West Bank, Women
Sources:

Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), League of Arab States (LAS), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Secretary-General, Security Council, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, UN Women, United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), World Food Programme (WFP)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Monthly Bulletin

Country:

18-Mar-2025 Resumed Hostilities, Blocked Aid Destroying Ceasefire Gains in Gaza, Security Council Hears – Press Release Armed conflict, Assistance to the Palestinian people, Casualties, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Hostages, Humanitarian relief, Internally displaced persons, International Court of Justice, Occupying Power, Security issues, UNRWA, West Bank
Sources:

Security Council, United Nations Department of Global Communications

Entity:

Type

Press Release

Country:

08-Jan-2025 “There is currently no realistic alternative to UNRWA” Letter from the Secretary-General to President of the General Assembly and the President of the Security Council on the legal status of Gaza Strip and the role of UNRWA (A/79/716-S/2025/18) Gaza Strip, Occupying Power, UNRWA A/79/716
Sources:

Secretary-General

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Letter

Country:

23-Dec-2024 ICJ Press Release: The UN General Assembly requests an advisory opinion from the Court on “the obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States” in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Occupying Power
Sources:

International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

20-Dec-2024 UN Palestinian Rights Committee Bureau Welcomes Historic Resolution Requesting an Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice, Rejects Actions that Obstruct Aid Assistance to the Palestinian people, Food, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Humanitarian relief, Inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, International Court of Justice, Occupation, Occupying Power
Sources:

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release, Press statement

Country:

19-Dec-2024 Request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States – Resolution adopted by UN General Assembly (A/RES/79/232) Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Israel's illegal occupation, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Self-determination, UNRWA A/RES/79/232
Sources:

General Assembly

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

General Assembly resolution, Resolution

Country:

19-Dec-2024 Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources – General Assembly Resolution (A/RES/79/229) Agriculture, Golan Heights, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Jerusalem, Land, Natural resources, Occupying Power, Settlements, Water A/RES/79/229
Sources:

General Assembly

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

General Assembly resolution, Resolution

Country:

12-Dec-2024 Request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, other international organizations and third States – GA draft Resolution (A/79/L.28/Rev.1) – Revised (Adopted on 19 Dec 2024) Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Legal issues, Occupying Power, Refugees and displaced persons, Self-determination, UNRWA A/79/L.28/Rev.1
Sources:

General Assembly, International Court of Justice (ICJ)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

General Assembly draft resolution, General Assembly resolution, Resolution

Country:

05-Dec-2024 UNCTAD Report: Occupation, fragmentation and poverty in the West Bank Access and movement, Living conditions, Occupying Power, Poverty, Settlements, Two State solution, West Bank UNCTAD/GDS/APP/2024/1
Sources:

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Report

Country:

26-Nov-2024 With War Raging in Gaza, International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians Marked by Somber Statements across UN System, Diplomatic Sphere – Press release Armed conflict, Atrocities, Casualties, Children, Gaza Strip, Health, Hospitals, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Jerusalem, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Racial discrimination, Settlements, Solidarity day, West Bank GA/PAL/1475
Sources:

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Deputy Secretary-General, Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), General Assembly, League of Arab States (LAS), Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Secretary-General, Security Council

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

19-Nov-2024 Implementation of Obligations Under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in Light of Violations by the Occupying Power in the Palestinian Territory and Lebanon – Submitted by Iraq on behalf of the Arab States Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupying Power, War crimes CCW/MSP/2024/WP.24
Sources:

Group of Arab States

Entity:

State

Type

Meeting report

Country:

Iraq

24-Oct-2024 Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources – Draft GA Resolution Agriculture, Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Jerusalem, Land, Mine action, Natural resources, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Refugees and displaced persons, West Bank A/C.2/79/L.40
Sources:

General Assembly, General Assembly Second Committee (Economic and Financial)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Draft resolution, General Assembly draft resolution

Country:

Uganda

18-Sep-2024 UN Palestinian Rights Committee Bureau Welcomes Historic Resolution Calling for an End to Israel’s Occupation of Palestine – Press statement Legal issues, Occupation, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Peace process, Self-determination, Settlements, Statehood-related, Two State solution, West Bank GA/PAL/1472
Sources:

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP)

Entity:

Intergovernmental organization or multilateral

Type

Press statement, Statement

Country:

16-Sep-2024 Press Briefing by Human Rights Special Rapporteurs on OPT, Water, Health, Democratic Order at UN Geneva: Escalating violence and human rights violations in Gaza and the rest of occupied Palestinian territory Access and movement, Armed conflict, Assistance, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Refugees and displaced persons, Violence, West Bank
Sources:

Independent Expert on international order, Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, United Nations Information Service at Geneva, United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Briefing, Multimedia, Press Conference, Press briefing, Video

Country:

04-Sep-2024 Security Council’s 9717th Meeting: Every Human Life ‘Equal’, Security Council Told as Speakers Weigh Killing of Israeli Hostages, Mounting Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza, West Bank Armed conflict, Casualties, Ceasefire, Children, Gaza Strip, Health, Hostages, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Negotiations and agreements, Occupying Power, Refugees and displaced persons, West Bank, Women SC/15810
Sources:

B'Tselem, Security Council, United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

Algeria, China, Israel, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Palestine (State of), Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America

22-Aug-2024 Report of the Ad Hoc Conciliation Commission (case State of Palestine v. Israel) – Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD/C/113/3) Armed conflict, Convention: Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Racial discrimination, United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine CERD/C/113/3
Sources:

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Report

Country:

23-Jul-2024 UN Palestinian Rights Committee Bureau Welcomes the landmark Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice and Calls for Rapid Action by the International Community Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, Israel's illegal occupation, Israeli settlements, Jerusalem, Legal issues, Occupation, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Settlements, Settler violence, West Bank
Sources:

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release, Press statement

Country:

19-Jul-2024 Watch: Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory ‘unlawful’: UN world court Armed conflict, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Israeli settlements, Jerusalem, Occupation, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Two State solution, West Bank
Sources:

UN News, United Nations Department of Global Communications

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Advisory Opinion, UN news item, Video

Country:

Israel, Palestine (State of)

17-May-2024 The Nakba and the UN’s Permanent Responsibility for the Question of Palestine by Prof. Ardi Imseis, 2024 Gaza Strip, Nakba, Occupation, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Racial discrimination, Self-determination, West Bank
Sources:

Entity:

Type

Remarks

Country:

06-May-2024 Onslaught of violence against women and children in Gaza unacceptable: UN experts – OHCHR Access and movement, Armed conflict, Casualties, Children, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Internally displaced persons, Occupying Power, Refugees and displaced persons, Women
Sources:

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

05-Apr-2024 Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice – Human Rights Council Resolution (A/HRC/RES/55/28) Access and movement, Armed conflict, Arms control and regional security issues, Ceasefire, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Jerusalem, Occupying Power, Prisoners and detainees, Settlements A/HRC/RES/55/28
Sources:

Human Rights Council

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Resolution

Country:

04-Apr-2024 Panel IV “Ensuring Compliance with International Mechanisms After the International Court of Justice Rulings” of the 2024 Conference of Civil Society Organisations Working on the Question of Palestine – CEIRPP – Press Release Apartheid, Children, Gaza Strip, Occupation, Occupying Power
Sources:

Al-Haq, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

South Africa

31-Mar-2024 Action by UN System and Intergovernmental Organizations Relevant to the Question of Palestine (March 2024 Monthly Bulletin) Access and movement, Armed conflict, Assistance, Casualties, Ceasefire, Children, Convention: Genocide, Food, Funding needs, Gaza Strip, Genocide, Health, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Humanitarian relief, Hunger, Internally displaced persons, Legal issues, Occupying Power, Protection of civilians, Refugees and displaced persons, Shelter, Violence, Water, West Bank, Women, malnutrition, sexual violence
Sources:

Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), General Assembly, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Save the Children, Secretary-General, Security Council, Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for the OPT, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Bulletin, Monthly Bulletin

Country:

Germany, Nicaragua, Singapore

21-Mar-2024 Human Rights Council Draft resolution: Right of the Palestinian people to self-determination (A/HRC/55/L.13) Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupation, Occupying Power, Palestine question, Self-determination A/HRC/55/L.13
Sources:

Human Rights Council

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Draft resolution, Resolution

Country:

Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Pakistan, Peru, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

09-Feb-2024 It is time for genuine, practical measures to stop this absolute inhumanity, stop the killing, stop the forced transfer, stop the destruction and devastation- Letter from Palestine (A/ES-10/983-S/2024/157) Access and movement, Armed conflict, Casualties, Ceasefire, Food, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Occupying Power, Protection of civilians, Refugees and displaced persons A/ES-10/983
Sources:

General Assembly, Security Council

Entity:

Palestine/PLO/Palestinian Authority

Type

Letter

Country:

Palestine (State of)

08-Feb-2024 Turk warns Israeli extensive destruction near Gaza border “grave breach” of Geneva conventions, possible war crime – UN Human Rights Office Press Release Armed conflict, Fourth Geneva Convention, Gaza Strip, House demolitions, Occupying Power
Sources:

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Press Release

Country:

06-Feb-2024 Committee against Torture: Information received from the State of Palestine on follow-up to the concluding observations on its initial report*(CAT/C/PSE/FCO/1) Convention: Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Legal issues, Occupying Power, Torture, War crimes, detainees CAT/C/PSE/FCO/1
Sources:

Committee against Torture, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Entity:

United Nations system

Type

Report

Country:

Palestine (State of)

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