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The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question - Security Council, 9116th meeting.

The Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, told the Security Council that the ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza remains in effect and “a fragile calm has been restored” in the territory.

Addressing the Council on Thursday (25 Aug), Wennesland said that the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings have remained open since 8 August, allowing for the entry of essential goods and materials.

The Special Coordinator said the ceasefire “prevented the situation from escalating into a full-scale war, which would have had devastating consequences.”

According to Wennesland, the truce also allowed for the resumption of the measures implemented over the past year that have resulted in much needed economic relief to the people in Gaza.

“But a ceasefire is limited to ending immediate hostilities. The underlying drivers of the conflict are still unresolved”, the Special Coordinator added.

In the meantime, Wennesland said, violence has increased across much of the occupied West Bank, on top of Israeli settlement activity, fiscal and political challenges to the Palestinian Authority, political division in the West Bank and Gaza, economic and movement restrictions for Palestinians in Gaza, the nature of Hamas rule and the ever-present threat of violence.

Given these challenges, the Special Coordinator said that “the status quo is not a strategy nor a strategic option – not for positive change on the ground nor for a restart of talks between the two sides.”

“I urge the Israeli and Palestinian leadership, regional countries and the broader international community to take firm action to enable a return to meaningful negotiations”, Wennesland concluded.

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, also briefed the Council, informing that over 80 percent of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza live below the poverty line.

In Gaza, Lazzarini said, “escalation of violence was a stark reminder that more and violence can erupt anytime, in the absence of general and comprehensive effort to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict.”

During the crisis earlier in the month, 60 Palestinian refugee families lost their homes, 17 children were killed, eight were students in UNRWA schools.

Daniel Levy, President of the U.S./Middle East Project, told Council Members that these events “are as concerning as they are predictable.”

“To be very clear, Israelis deserve security, Palestinians deserve security”, Levy added.

Speaking to journalists at the Security Council stakeout at the end of the session, the Permanent Observer to the United Nations from Palestine, Riyad Mansour, said they are “open to ideas to save the two-state solution.”

For Mansour, “the emphasis here is saving the two-state solution” and “it is not enough to keep repeating that we stand for the two-state solution.”

The Permanent Representative added, “tell us how you can save it, because the Israeli occupying authority is destroying it before our eyes.”

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14:19 palestinians cant get building permits but izraelis do get them?

what, how is that possible?

[darnneljones]

The total length of the meeting was over 4 hours. 2 hour's are missing.

[md.muzahidulislamsamrat]

How could one have a discussion evaluating Apartheid within green line and not mention the Nation- State Law?

Or the implications of getting married to a non- citizen for a Palestinian vs a Jew?

Or even the fact that Palestinians don’t qualify for state-sanctioned housing in the form of Israeli colonies, though are forced to pay for them?

Or that Israel’s laws are, by design, geared to push Palestinians gradually to emigrate, and therefore to eventually fall under more brazen categories of Apartheid, a treatment reserved for Palestinians alone?

And I have no problem in saying I do not understand the relevance of Klug’s suggestion that if we label Israel as guilty of atrocities, we must label neighboring regimes as guilty of those same atrocities. As if that offers any justification for subsidizing and supporting a system of injustice against Palestinians.

[sandboxaccountz.zy.]

Is anyone aware how many civilians have been killed 12 minutes in the video?

what is this

[VaucluseVanguard]

The would have been peace long ago if the UN were not involved.

[sandboxaccountz.zy.]

Should this should that, what a travesty.

why are these people only talk? This is what humanity formed to implement and uphold human rights?

sad

[jaimepatino]

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

[sandboxaccountz.zy.]

15:43 give us the material that shows the incitment in shools, what is this, where is the justice system?

[luispadrao]

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united nation says i am awaiting conducting exam for god and gods shall learn and writing history of universe event and united nation shall give marks for pass or fail

[jaimepatino]

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

[jamesfraizer]

You All Having Fun? Will You Still Have Fun After All Flesh Life For All Is OVER? That Goes For All Life! No One Will Escape God Judgement! You Will See His Son! That Satan Been Lying To All About For Many Many Years!

[jaimepatino]

The Doom of Babylon
20Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her. 21Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again

[jaimepatino]

The Pope's and the world should know better than

[geraldlevin]

A United Nations General Assembly resolution for Egypt to again administer Gaza is required.

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Statue of Molech, Pagan Deity of Child Sacrifice Displayed at Colosseum

[jaimepatino]

You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, YHWH your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the ...

[jaimepatino]

Statue of Molech Pagan Deity of Child Sacrifice Displayed at Colosseum