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Representatives of China and the United Arab Emirates deliver a joint statement after a UN Security Council meeting, calling for an humanitarian ceasefire, adding that "wars have laws and they must be upheld" as "civilians in Gaza cannot even find safety in UN facilities, hospitals and refugee camps".
2023-11-7

Twelve cancer patients have died in the Gaza Strip after the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, Gaza's only medical facility serving cancer patients, was forced to suspend operations after running out of fuel.
2023-11-3

Amnesty International issues a statement calling for an immediate ceasefire to stop the increasing death toll and to ensure crucial aid reaches Gaza amid an "unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe".
2023-10-26

Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of "provoking armed confrontation" with pro-Russian separatists in the war-torn eastern portion of the country. Putin also said that Ukraine failed to comply with the July 2020 ceasefire of the conflict, which has killed over 14,000 people since it broke out in 2014.
2021-03-31

A humanitarian ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh breaks down shortly after coming into effect, with both Armenia and Azerbaijan blaming each other for violating the truce.
2020-10-26

Ukraine's military says pro-Russian separatists have violated a ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine just hours after it was declared, after opening fire on Ukrainian positions with anti-tank grenade launchers and small arms. Ukrainian forces did not return fire.
2020-07-27

A report from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights accuses the Venezuelan government of allowing its security forces to participate in hundreds of extrajudicial killings over the past year.
2018-06-22

Israel's security cabinet issues a three-year temporary order that sets a four-year minimum sentence for adult stone- and firebomb-throwers. In addition, new rules of engagement allow police to open fire when the life of a third party is under threat.
2015-09-24

The Basque nationalist group ETA announces a ceasefire in its struggle for Basque independence from France and Spain.
2010-09-5