In paying tribute to the thousands of mainly Muslim men and boys brutally murdered in the July 1995 massacre during the Balkan wars, António Guterres pledged that they will never be forgotten. He said, “A quarter century ago, the United Nations and the international community failed the people of Srebrenica.

Al-Jazeera reported on 6 July 2020 that the Jewish occupation has said it carried out fresh air raids on the Gaza Strip in response to three alleged rockets fired from the besieged Palestinian enclave. No casualties were reported in the attacks that took place amid heightened tensions over the Jewish entity’s widely criticised plan to illegally annex parts of the occupied West Bank.

July 2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, when Serb forces entered the enclave of Srebrenica, designated as a ‘safe zone’ by the UN during the Bosnian war, and subsequently executed 8000 Muslim men and boys in cold blood at sites around north-eastern Bosnia.

On 11 July 1995, Bosnian Serb units captured the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina. “All who wish to go will be transported, large and small, young and old. Don't be afraid... No one will harm you." Serbian army General Ratco Miladic.