The UN Security Council will publicly discuss the worsening Israeli-Palestinian tensions on Sunday. The decision to hold the meeting came after reaching a compromise over US objections to a meeting on Friday. Diplomats said the United States, a close ally of Israel, had initially suggested a virtual public meeting could …

Gaza (IP) -In response to the Israeli regime’s threat of a ground offensive against Gaza, the spokesman for the military branch of the Islamic Jihad Movement stressed that the ground battle was the shortest way for the resistance to victory and that the fate of the Zionist soldiers would be …

Such statements are agreed by consensus. All 15 council members also have to agree to a meeting under rules guiding the body’s virtual operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The United States has objected to a request by China, Norway and Tunisia for a public, virtual meeting of the United Nations …