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Palestinians and Israelis clash at UN over Netanyahu actions

The Palestinians and Israel have clashed over the future intentions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far right-wing government at a U.N. Security Council meeting

The Independent UK

Guterres: Situation in West Bank Most Combustible in Years

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is at its “most combustible in years” against a backdrop of deadly accelerating surges of violence, “sky high” tensions, and a stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. “Our immediate priority must be to prevent further escalation, reduce…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Security Council voices ‘dismay’ over Israeli settlements

Watered-down statement replaces draft resolution that would have explicitly condemned Israel’s settlement activities.

Al Jazeera

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Israeli And PA Envoys Hurl Accusations At Security Council

The Israeli and Palestinian Authority ambassadors to the United Nations slung barbs at each other in a fiery debate.

Zenger

Shtayyeh: Israel Waging All-Out War

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Friday that the new Israeli government is waging an all-out war on Palestinians, accusing it of increasing violence and illegally withholding PA funds. “The new Israeli government is expanding the circle of its war on our land and our people.

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Israel Defends Ben-Gvir, Int’l Community Cautions against Provocations at Al-Aqsa

Israel faced widespread criticism, including from the United States and Russia, during an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss the visit of the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, to al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The international community warned that the new development could lead to a…

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UN Security Council Members Stress Al Aqsa Mosque Status Quo

UN Security Council members voiced concern on Thursday and stressed the need to maintain a status quo at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, days after Israel's new far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir briefly visited the site. The decades-old status quo allows only Muslim worship at the compound. An…

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UN Security Council stresses Al-Aqsa status quo, takes no action

Palestinian envoy: ‘What red line does Israel need to cross for the Security Council to finally say, enough is enough?’

Al Jazeera

U.N. Security Council members stress Al Aqsa mosque status quo

U.N. Security Council members voiced concern on Thursday and stressed the need to maintain a status quo at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, days after Israel's new far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir briefly visited the site.

Reuters

UN Security Council to Discuss Israeli Minister's Al-Aqsa Visit

The UN Security Council will meet Thursday to discuss the controversial visit to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound by an Israeli minister that has enraged Palestinians. The 15-member Council will convene at 3:00 pm (2000 GMT) at the United Nations headquarters in New York following a request by the United Arab…

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UN to hold emergency meeting on Israeli visit to holy site

The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting at the request of the Palestinians and other Islamic and non-Islamic nations to protest the visit of an ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site

The Independent UK

General Assembly Refers Israeli Occupation to UN Court

The UN General Assembly on Friday asked the International Court of Justice to consider consequences for Israel over its occupation of Palestinian territories, a day after the Jewish state's most right-wing government ever took over. The General Assembly voted 87-26 with 53 abstentions on the resolution, with Western nations split…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN seeks ICJ opinion on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine

The resolution will see International Court of Justice give opinion on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.

Al Jazeera

UN seeks court opinion on 'violation' of Palestinian rights

The U.N. General Assembly has asked the U.N.’s highest judicial body to give its opinion on the legality of Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem

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U.N. asks World Court to give opinion on Israel's occupation

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Friday asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to give an opinion on the legal consequences of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Palestinian Authority Appeals for Int'l Protection from Israeli Field Aggressions

The Palestinian Authority underlined the need to provide international protection for the Palestinian people who were lately exposed to a series of field executions and continuous crimes by Israeli soldiers. Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, sent on Friday three identical letters to…

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UN: 2022 Likely Deadliest for Palestinians in West Bank

The UN Middle East envoy said 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the UN started tracking fatalities in 2005, and he called for immediate action to calm “an explosive situation” and move toward renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

The Independent UK

UN: 2022 likely deadliest for Palestinians in West Bank

The U.N. Mideast envoy says 2022 is on course to be the deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank since the U.N. started tracking fatalities in 2005 and called for immediate action to calm “an explosive situation” and move toward renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

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Washington Warns to Veto Palestinian Bid to Obtain Full UN Membership

US President Joe Biden’s administration has warned the Palestinian Authority from pursuing a vote at the UN Security Council to gain full UN membership. Walla news website in Tel Aviv quoted senior US officials as affirming that Washington will veto such move. Palestinian envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour…

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Abbas Calls on Germany to Support Palestine's Full UN Membership

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to recognize the Palestinian state and support its full membership in the United Nations. Abbas met with Scholz in Berlin after arriving on an official visit to discuss bilateral relations, recent developments in the Palestinian territories, and the future of the…

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PA Files Complaint to UN Security Council Against Lapid’s Gov’t

The Palestinian Authority filed a complaint to the United Nations Security Council against Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s caretaker government. “The occupying power (Israel) has launched an illegal and massive campaign to colonize Palestinian land and build hundreds of other settlement units,” the PA noted, citing the ongoing violent attacks…

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Guterres Says Shocked by Number of Children Killed by Israel

UN chief Antonio Guterres said in a report on Monday that he was shocked by the number of children killed and maimed by Israeli forces in 2021, stressing the importance of holding perpetrators accountable for these violations. In his annual “Children and Armed Conflict” report, which covers violations against children…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Arab Nations at UN Seek Probe Into Abu Akleh’s Killing

Arab countries at the United Nations called Wednesday for an independent, international probe into what they called the assassination of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead as she covered an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank. "The Arab group in New York adopted a…

Al Jazeera

Calls grow for independent investigation into Abu Akleh’s killing

The UN calls for ‘independent investigation’ after Al Jazeera says Shireen Abu Akleh was ‘assassinated in cold blood’.

Al Jazeera

Palestine UN ambassador rules out Israeli role in Abu Akleh probe

Riyad Mansour says Palestine will not accept Israeli participation in investigation of Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing.

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