Bulletin on action by the UN/Division for Palestinian Rights

 

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Please find below the link to and the table of contents of the Bulletin on action by the United Nations system and Intergovernmental Organizations relevant to the Question of Palestine (March 2025).

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Contents

  1. Gaza ceasefire must hold, Secretary-General urges at launch of Berlin Initiative

  2. Serious negotiations must resume for Gaza ceasefire, UN Secretary-General tells Extraordinary Arab League Summit

  3. West Bank large scale house demolitions by Israeli forces are having unprecedented impact on Palestine refugees, UNRWA warns

  4. UN Human rights experts condemn Israeli decision to re-open ‘gates of hell’ and unilaterally change conditions of truce deal

  5. Commission of Inquiry documents Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023

  6. UNICEF warns Palestinian children remain deprived of the most essential supplies and services

  7. UNRWA is facing significant operational challenges due to the Knesset laws, forced to evacuate Jerusalem HQ, says agency’s Chief

  8. Israel ramps up settlement and annexation in West Bank with dire human rights consequences, warns OHCHR

  9. UN Special Rapporteur Albanese warns of mass ethnic cleansing in the West Bank

  10. UN Human Rights High Commissioner denounces Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

  11. Secretary-General condemns attacks on UN personnel

  12. A renewed ceasefire is the best way of protecting civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and in Israel, ASG Khiari tells Security Council

  13. Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016)

  14. UN scales down Gaza operations after Israeli strikes hit compound

  15. Hunger looms again in Gaza as WFP food stocks begin to run out

  16. UN Relief Coordinator urges international action to protect civilians in Gaza

  17. UN Women on the collapse of a Gaza ceasefire and its devastating impact on women and girls

  18. At least 322 children reportedly killed in the Gaza Strip following breakdown of ceasefire – UNICEF

  19. UN Human Rights High Commissioner condemns the killing of Gaza medical and humanitarian workers by Israeli army

Gaza is a ‘killing field’ where people are being starved...

Water is also being used as a weapon of war. In early March, a week after stopping any food or other humanitarian supplies from getting into Gaza, Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza’s main operational desalination plant. The situation now could not be more desperate. “Gaza is a killing field, and civilians are in an endless death loop,” the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said on Tuesday.

This is not an ‘aid blockade’ so much as it is a starvation campaign

Emboldened by Donald Trump and his visions of building hotels and casinos on top of these killing fields, Israel is not even trying to hide its aims any more. It wants to rid Gaza of Palestinians and annex the West Bank. And it will starve, kill and terrorize Palestinians until they “voluntarily” agree to leave en masse to somewhere like Sudan or Somalia – those being a couple of the countries the US and Israel have recently floated as potential relocation areas.

“We will see to the general security in the Gaza Strip and will allow the realization of the Trump plan for voluntary migration,” Benjamin Netanyahu recently said. “This is the plan. We are not hiding this and are ready to discuss it at any time.”

Read the Guardian article here.

West Bank Update...

West Bank Monthly Snapshot
Casualties, Property Damage and Displacement

February 2025

*Disclaimer: 

  • This report reflects information available as of the time of publication. The most updated data and more breakdowns are available at ochaopt.org/data.

  • In Israel, 13 Israelis were killed by Palestinians from the West Bank in attacks that also resulted in the killing of 5 Palestinians between January 2024 and February 2025, with no such fatalities recorded in January and February 2025. These are counted separately, as this report covers incidents that took place in the West Bank.

  • Casualties in the West Bank have been documented by OCHA since 2005, settler violence since 2006, and demolitions and displacement since 2009.

  • Palestinians or Israelis whose immediate cause of death or the perpetrator’s identity remain disputed, unclear, or unknown, are counted separately, so are casualties as a result of “friendly fire” and Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank who have died in Israeli custody. Figures also do not include UXOs, mishandling of weapons, hit-and-run incidents, internal Palestinian clashes, and incidents where the perpetrator's nationality is disputed.