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Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Monday demanded the United Nations Security Council "put as much pressure as possible" on Palestinian militants Hamas to release the people it took hostage during the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Katz addressed the 15-member council, which met to discuss a U.N. report that found there were "reasonable grounds to believe" sexual violence, including rape and gang rape, occurred at several locations during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.

The European Parliament stopped short on Thursday of calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, saying this should happen only if hostages held in the besieged Palestinian enclave were released and Hamas dismantled. Three groups of EU lawmakers - the socialists, centrists and greens - had sought a resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire and the restart of efforts towards a political solution. The resolution text also called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and the dismantling of Hamas.

Nahid Taghavi was sentenced to more than 10 years in 2021 on national security charges. Amnesty International says she was “peacefully exercising (her) human rights.”

The UN General Assembly met during an emergency session on Dec. 12, 2023, where representatives overwhelmingly voted in favor of a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

Nobel Prize laureates, business leaders, former heads of state, and humanitarians are among the more than 100 global figures who have signed a letter calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the "Armenian Prisoners," which includes eight Armenian political prisoners, who are former leaders of Nagorno-Karabakh's government illegally detained following Azerbaijan's invasion and seizure of the region in September. More than a dozen other prisoners of war arrested during the conflict a