Former Hamas hostage Noa Argamani spoke to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday about her time as a captive in Gaza. She also made a desperate plea for the release of the remaining hostages.

Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon is calling on the international body to issue a formal condemnation of Hamas and the atrocities it has committed since the Oct. 7 attacks.

The UN Human Rights Chief accused Israel on Wednesday of showing an unprecedented disregard for human rights in its military actions in Gaza and said Hamas had violated international law. "Nothing justifies the appalling manner in which Israel has conducted its military operations in Gaza which consistently breached international law",

An Israeli woman recounted her ordeal at the United Nations Security Council, telling the 15-member body she did not think she would make it out alive.

The U.N.'s annual report on children in conflict zones, which is set to be published in June, is already getting attention for its framing of Israeli victims and for omitting Hamas crimes.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Friday submitted written testimony to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), detailing the close ties between the disgraced United Nations aid agency UNRWA and the Hamas terrorist organization in connection with the atrocities of Oct.

The head of the United Nations made a fresh appeal for the Gaza ceasefire to be extended, warning against a "catastrophic" return to war as the first phase of the Israel-Hamas truce was to expire on Saturday.

The report called on prosecutors at the ICC “to pursue investigations into and prosecutions of hostage-taking and torture” and for the creation of a UN fund to support hostages that would be “fu

"The balloons floated symbolically above the U.N. building—a stark reminder of the institution’s failure to formally condemn Hamas’s atrocities on Oct. 7 and its barbaric treatment of hostages," Jonat

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Israel carried out an air strike on militants in northern Gaza on Sunday, rattling an already fragile ceasefire as it prepared for fresh talks in Doha on the future of its truce with Hamas.The Palestinian militant group has repeatedly called for an immediate start to negotiations on the ceasefire's second phase,