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More than 100,000 people have fled Rafah in recent days, the United Nations said on May 10, with Israeli tanks encircling the eastern half of the southern Gaza city, under threat of a full-scale ground invasion.

The United Nations has hosted an event to mark the second International Day of Zero Waste, highlighting a project initiated in Türkiye aimed at reducing waste burden, with Turkish first lady Emine Erdoğan calling for tangible steps towards sustainability.

March 30 was declared as International Day of Zero Waste by a United Nations General Assembly resolution in 2022.

In a move towards regulating artificial intelligence (AI) globally, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) unanimously approved a landmark resolution aimed at ensuring the safe and trustworthy use of AI systems.

Every year on March 8th, the world comes together to celebrate International Women's Day, a day dedicated to recognizing the economic, political, and social achievements of women globally.

Undercover Israeli agents, some disguised as medical staff, raided a West Bank hospital Tuesday and shot dead three Palestinians the army alleged were Hamas militants, in the first such operation in eight years.

The Israeli military said forces entered the hospital — a major health facility serving Jenin city and its adjacent refugee camp — to target a "Hamas terrorist cell".

Turkish first lady Emine Erdoğan has actively pursued both domestic and international efforts in 2023 for the Zero Waste Project aimed at reducing Türkiye's waste burden.

Israel came under pressure Wednesday from its allies over its war in Gaza, with key backer the United States criticising its bombing in response to the October 7 attacks as "indiscriminate".

The United Nations General Assembly also overwhelmingly backed a non-binding resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the devastated territory.

Bolivia severed diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009, after Israel launched an offensive in Gaza.
The two countries renewed relations ten years later in 2019.
Ten days after the Palestinian group Hamas attacked Israel and Israel's total siege of the Gaza Strip that followed, Colombia asked the Israeli Ambassador to leave the country.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Friday afternoon calling for an "immediate, durable, and sustained humanitarian truce" between Israeli forces and Hamas militants in Gaza. Four EU countries voted against the resolution; Greece and 13 other EU countries abstained. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has decried the recent Quran burning incidents in several European countries as hate crimes and acts of barbarism, expressing deep concerns over the "escalating Islamophobia in Western nations."