The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Israeli forces backed by fighter jets and drones have carried out a second ground raid into Gaza in as many days

As a non-member observer, Palestine can speak at UN meetings but can’t vote on resolutions about the situation in Gaza.

In a crowded suburb of Beirut, some are praying to be spared a war with Israel spilling over from Gaza, as others prepare to join the Hezbollah ‘resistance’

United Nations resolution passes with 120 votes in favour of truce. This blog is now closed

Palestinians and Israelis are bound together in suffering. Seeking to untangle this, as the UN has, should not be seen as making excuses for Hamas, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Defence secretary says strikes in response to attacks on US troops and warns others against triggering ‘broader regional conflict’

The UN and the Palestinian embassy have demanded the release of a stateless Palestinian man who has been in immigration detention for a decade in Australia.

Newly released images show entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble after strikes from Israel in the war against Hamas

Village schools have been shuttered across China's Tibet and replaced with centralized boarding schools that critics say represents forced assimilation

Global security involves managing a complex combination of law, ethics and politics. No situation exemplifies this more than what is happening now in Israel and Gaza.

The Israeli army said it will extend "ground operations" in the Gaza Strip on Friday night after significantly intensifying its air strikes on the Palestinian territory. The news came as local authorities announced that internet and phone services have been cut off across the coastal enclave. Earlier, a barrage of…