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An Israeli soldier prepares a drone to be launched near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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US defends its veto of call for Gaza cease-fire while Palestinians and others demand fighting stop
By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Tue,01/09/24-6:35PM , 138 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States defended its veto of a call for the immediate suspension of hostilities in Gaza at a U.N.
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In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the amphibious dock landing ship USS Carter Hall and amphibious assault ship USS Bataan transit the Bab al-Mandeb strait on Aug. 9, 2023. The top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East says Yemen’s Houthi rebels are showing no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea. But Vice Adm. Brad Cooper said in an Associated Press interview on Saturday that more nations are joining the international maritime mission to protect vessels in the vital waterway and trade traffic is beginning to pick up. (Mass Communications Spc. 2nd Class Moises Sandoval/U.S. Navy via AP)

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US calls for urgent UN action on attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea
By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Wed,01/03/24-7:37PM , 105 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States called on the U.N. Security Council Wednesday to take urgent action against Yemen’s Houthi rebels for attacking ships in the key Red Sea trade route and warned their longtime financier Iran that it has a choice to make about continuing to provide support to the rebels.
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Netherland's Sigrid Kaag arrives for a meeting of eurozone finance ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 15, 2023. The Netherlands’ former deputy prime minister and a Mideast expert has been appointed the U.N. coordinator for humanitarian aid to Gaza, where there are more than 2 million desperate civilians in need of food, water and medicine. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of Sigrid Kaag on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

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UN appoints a former Dutch deputy premier and Mideast expert as its Gaza humanitarian coordinator
By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Tue,12/26/23-2:08PM , 53 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sigrid Kaag, the Netherlands’ former deputy prime minister and a Mideast expert, was appointed the U.N. coordinator for humanitarian aid to war-torn Gaza, the United Nations chief announced Tuesday.
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US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during the Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, Dec. 22, 2023. After many delays, the U.N. Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to desperate civilians in Gaza but without the original call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

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UN approves watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities
By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press
Fri,12/22/23-10:38AM , 155 Reads
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding aid deliveries to hungry and desperate civilians in Gaza but without the original plea for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.
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