The resolution also calls on member states not to sell arms or military equipment to Israel that would be used in Gaza, the West Bank, and east Jerusalem.

UN Palestinian relief agency says employee was first to be killed in the territory in more than a decade, but Israeli military says he was a ‘terrorist’

The UN General Assembly is set to vote on a resolution that calls for Israel to withdraw from territories occupied since 1967 and restricts arms sales to Israel.

Palestinian students in occupied West Bank begin their new school year, while their peers in Gaza Strip faces a 2nd consecutive year without attending school amid Israel’s ongoing military onslaught https://t.co/v9v4AjStyS pic.twitter.com/4XfB3A6ttt

OTTAWA — Canada abstained today from a high-profile United Nations vote demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank within a year.

Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade; missile hit unpopulated area, Israel military says

The UN says a sniper killed one of its employees on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade.