The Council is set to hear a briefing from the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland.

‘We welcome any steps that are aimed at stopping the bloodshed as soon as possible and ensuring a sustainable, permanent cease-fire,’ Lavrov tells news conference

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stresses global unity to stop bloodshed in Gaza

Filippo Grandi said the number currently stands at 114 million. "Next month we will update this figure. It will be higher," he added.

'It's time for this Council to take action and to adopt a new resolution' on Gaza, says Nicolas de Riviere

“Norway has made it very clear that it supports Palestine’s application for full membership status in the UN, and that Norway will vote in favor the day the General Assembly holds a vote on the application,” Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said in a statement issued late Friday.

The president’s remarks came in an interview with the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, which mostly criticized the US for thwarting an Arab resolution project demanding full Palestinian membership in the United Nations.

In a statement, the Security Council affirmed that "more should be done" to help civilians in the besieged Palestinian Territory.

Humanitarian workers cannot be asked to serve at the peril of their lives,' Algerian ambassador to UN says

'The ask is simple, yet urgent: Stop indiscriminate attacks on civilians, medical staff, and health facilities,' says head of medical charity

Foreign Ministry condemns attack on UN Interim Force in Lebanon, says it ‘violates international and humanitarian law’

Resolution demands 'immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire'

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres 'continues to hope that the Security Council will find a way to speak with one voice on this issue,' says his spokesperson

Moscow condemns ‘new blatant act of American-British aggression against sovereign states,’ says Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson

The call came following an emergency meeting held by the Cairo-based body at the level of permanent delegates upon a request from Palestine to discuss ways of halting the Israeli war, which has killed more than 25,000 people since 7 October.

Amar Bendjama, permanent representative of Algeria to the UN, said what is happening in Gaza will remain a "disgrace."

Security Council scheduled vote on draft resolution calling for urgent cessation of hostilities in Gaza to allow unhindered access to deliver humanitarian aid

Discussing the need for “reform” at the UN, Khasawneh said the international community is weary, and the success of any reform speech is unlikely, during the seventh TRT World Forum in Istanbul.

'War' in Gaza would not be happening if UN Security Council decisions commanded respect, compliance, says Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

“The Israeli settlement occupation is indifferent to the UN Security Council, does not pay any attention to what it says, does not take the slightest account of what it approves, and ignores all the duties, responsibilities, and commitments it imposes,” Abdelmadjid Tebboune said in a speech read out at an African Union Summit in Ciudad de la Paz, Equatorial ...