US EditionUN Urges All Sides in Middle East War to 'Come to Their Senses'
The UN demands an impartial investigation into the strike that killed 168 at a girls’ school in Minab and calls for accountability amid escalating regional violence.
- On Saturday, UN human rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani called for a 'prompt, impartial and thorough investigation' into the attack on a girls' school in Minab, which occurred as pupils arrived for classes.
- The escalation began on Saturday when Israel and United States struck Iran, prompting Tehran's counterattacks and Hezbollah's entry; the UN human rights office warned such attacks may amount to war crimes.
- Witnesses described blood-stained schoolbags left at the girls' primary school in Minab, while Iran has claimed 168 people were killed in the strike.
- The UN warned that nearly 30,000 people were registered in collective shelters by Monday amid mounting displacement in southern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley and Beirut's southern suburbs.
- The UN and WFP warned that disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea will raise costs for operations, while the UN human rights office urged restoring telecoms services amid threats and an internet shutdown in Iran.
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The United Nations has urged all parties in the Israel-Iran conflict to protect civilians, expressing alarm over mounting displacement and rising humanitarian needs triggered by Israeli and U.S. air raids on Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes. UN human rights office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani described the devastation following a reported strike on Saturday that allegedly killed and injured dozens of girls at a primary school in Minab, so…
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UN Urges All Sides in Middle East War to ‘Come to Their Senses’
The United Nations on Tuesday urged all parties to "come to their senses" and end the war in the Middle East, with fear and panic spreading across the region and beyond. UN human rights chief Volker Turk said he was "deeply shocked" by how the conflict was affecting civilians. "The fear, the panic, the anxiety experienced by millions of people in the Middle East and beyond is palpable -- and was entirely avoidable," his spokeswoman Ravina Shamda…
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