TEL AVIV – Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon on Sunday slammed Hamas over the discovery of a tunnel underneath a UN-run school in Gaza, accusing the terror group of using schoolchildren as “human shields.”
NEW YORK – Anti-Israel and anti-Semitic themes in textbooks used by schools run by the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA have only worsened in recent years, the Algemeiner reported.
TEL AVIV – Israel is reportedly stepping up the pressure on American legislators to see the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which exclusively caters to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, absorbed into the UN agency that caters to the rest of the world’s 65 million refugees.
TEL AVIV – A leading Canadian Jewish group has expressed “concern” over the country’s recent announcement of up to $25 million in funding for a UN agency catering to Palestinian refugees that it deems “problematic and dangerous.”
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump has pledged to retain the annual U.S. funding of $300 million to a UN agency for Palestinian refugees despite calls from Israel shut it down.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday appointed Alison Smale, a veteran foreign correspondent and editor who has reported major stories for nearly 40 years, as the United Nations’ new communications chief.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon lashed out at comments made by former special envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi during a meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday, in which Brahimi quoted a Palestinian woman describing Gaza as a concentration camp.
TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to issue a resolution condemning Hamas and designating the Gaza-based group as a terror organization.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s dressing down of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas over his lies about incitement has finally brought the issue to light, a top American Jewish leader told The Algemeiner this week.
TEL AVIV – Following the discovery of terror tunnels under two UN-run schools in the Gaza Strip, Israel has appealed to the Security Council to condemn Hamas and do everything in its power to stop the terror group exploiting its own facilities, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley wrapped up a three-day visit to Israel with a tour of Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Friday where she cautioned on the importance of always “choosing a side.”
TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called her visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Wednesday “life-changing.” “My heart is full, and my life will change after the visit,” she wrote in the holy site’s visitors book.
TEL AVIV – On a visit to Israel, Washington’s ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley slammed the UN for “bullying” Israel and assured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the U.S. has the Jewish state’s back.
TEL AVIV – The secretary-general of the United Nations was roundly condemned Tuesday by both Jewish American and Israeli leaders for a statement slamming the ongoing “occupation” of Palestinian territories.
