On Thursday, July 27, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold its quarterly open debate on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”.
The debate will be chaired by Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific Mohamed Khaled Khiari.
The mounting levels of violence and growing tensions in the West Bank will be a key focus of the meeting.
In June, the Israeli government changed long-standing settlement planning and approval procedures to expedite these processes significantly, and on 26 June, it approved plans advancing more than 5,500 settlement units.
These developments, which were met with expressions of concern by key international interlocutors, compound the Israeli government’s other recent moves in this direction.
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