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 | 18 March 2025
  ‘Tragedy foretold and stain on our collective humanity’: Special Rapporteur warns of mass ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
• Press Releases | 6 March 2025
  Gaza: Experts condemn Israeli decision to re-open ‘gates of hell’ and unilaterally change conditions of truce deal
• Press Releases | 18 February 2025
  Experts urge humane treatment and immediate release of Israeli hostages and arbitrarily detained Palestinians
• Press Releases | 13 February 2025
  Israel must stop killing civilians returning to their homes in South Lebanon: UN experts
• Press Releases | 11 February 2025
  US proposal to ‘take over’ Gaza would shatter fundamental rules of international order, warn UN experts

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• Press Releases | 13 December 2024
  Gaza: UN committee alarmed by Israel’s blatant disregard for binding international orders
• 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 March 2025
  “More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023
• Press Releases | 4 March 2025
  Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, to hold Public Hearings from 11 to 12 March
• Statements | 30 October 2024
  Statement by Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, to the General Assembly Third Committee, UN Headquarters, New York (PDF)
• Press Releases | 18 October 2024
  International law obligates UN, Member States and international organizations to end Israel’s unlawful presence in Occupied Palestinian Territory, UN Commission says
• Press Releases | 10 October 2024
  UN Commission finds war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israeli attacks on Gaza health facilities and treatment of detainees, hostages