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The Palestinian leadership is considering turning to international institutions including the UN afresh, if US President Donald Trump’s administration fails to revive a “serious” peace process, Fatah Central Committee member Azzam al-Ahmad said on Monday.

The UN Security Council will hold consultations on Thursday about alleged violations by both Hezbollah and Israel of its resolution that ended the Second Lebanon War, the IDF’s Spokesperson’s Unit said.

The UN Security Council on Thursday strongly condemned fighting in the buffer zone between Syria and Israel and urged the Syrian government and opposition groups to withdraw from the area which is patrolled by UN peacekeepers.

TEL AVIV – Iran recently used a Star of David as a target for a ballistic missile test, Israel’s envoy to the UN said Wednesday, releasing satellite images of the site to the United Nations Security Council.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to issue a resolution condemning Hamas and designating the Gaza-based group as a terror organization.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s dressing down of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas over his lies about incitement has finally brought the issue to light, a top American Jewish leader told The Algemeiner this week.

A day after officials in Jerusalem said Israel and New Zealand agreed to end their diplomatic spat surrounding Wellington’s co-sponsoring of an anti-settlements resolution at the United Nations, the country’s leader rejected any suggestion that patching the rift equaled pulling support for the measure.

In her first international trip in her role as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley toured a Jordanian refugee camp Sunday – and defended the Trump administration’s policy on the Syrian refugee crisis in the face of its many critics in the UN.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Trump, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday to discuss various topics in the news, North Korea among them.

The Security Council must “act immediately” to halt the flow of money from the Palestinian Authority to jailed terrorists, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon declared on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – Israel issued an appeal this week to U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley asking her to help nullify the anti-Israel Security Council resolution that was passed in the final days of Obama’s presidency and defines the Western Wall and the Temple Mount as “occupied Palestinian territory.”

North Korea warned Monday that it will carry out a nuclear test “at any time and at any location” set by its leadership, in the latest rhetoric to fuel jitters in the region.

Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman is scheduled to visit Israel in mid-May, a sign that Israel’s anger over Ukraine’s support for UN Security Council Resolution 2443 has subsided.

The glorification of Palestinian terrorists like Marwan Barghouti — the jailed Fatah leader who is currently leading a hunger strike — “not only distances us from peace, but dishonors the memories of the innocent victims,” Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon declared on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – Russia’s envoy to Israel is expected to announce the immediate recognition of Western Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in a meeting with senior Foreign Ministry officials in the coming days, making it the first country in the world to formally legitimize any part of the city as the capital of the Jewish state.

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari accused Israel of providing support to the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday, claiming that the Jewish state has indirectly but significantly aided one of the most malicious terror groups in the region.

UNITED NATIONS – The UN Security Council will vote Wednesday on a draft resolution demanding that the Syrian government cooperate with an investigation of the suspected chemical attack last week in Idlib province, US diplomats said.

Contents: Russia’s policies thrown into confusion as US resumes its ‘world policeman’ role; President Trump reinstates the ‘Truman Doctrine’; Shock and euphoria follow the missile strike on Syria

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday he supports the “strong and clear message” sent by a US strike in neighbouring Syria in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack.

The US ambassador to the United Nations said Thursday that Washington is no longer focused on ousting President Bashar Assad as it seeks ways to end Syria’s civil war.

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, speaking at the at the American Israeli Political Affairs Commission’s annual conference in D.C. on Monday, reiterated her commitment to strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship and holding the United Nations accountable for its bias against the Jewish State.

The US ambassador to the United Nations received a rapturous welcome Monday at Washington’s biggest pro-Israel forum, where she vowed never to allow “Israel-bashing” at the world body.

The UN rights chief warned Tuesday that a “tidal wave of bloodshed” over more than six years of war in Syria had effectively turned the country into a “torture chamber”.

The Palestinian Authority must “stop its incitement to violence” and engage with Israel in “direct peace negotiations, rather than looking to the UN,” a top American diplomatic official said on Tuesday.

Marine Le Pen winning the presidency of France will be “game over” for the European Union (EU), the former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has said.

TEL AVIV – The United Nations Security Council must “publicly condemn” Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s threat to strike nuclear plants and other sites in Israel, the country’s UN ambassador said over the weekend.

UNITED NATIONS — The United States “absolutely” supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but is thinking of new ways to push for a peace deal, US Ambassador Nikki Haley said Thursday.

Contents: UN Security Council condemns North Korea missile tests; China’s foreign policy becomes complicated by North Korean test; America’s likely response: More THAAD and Aegis missile defense systems

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Monday advised citizens not to travel to North Korea, only a day after an Israeli company said it would be organizing tours to the secretive state.

As part of an overall strategy of being tougher on Iran and its nuclear ambitions, the Trump administration should start pushing a UN Security Council Resolution to ban Iranian missile tests, former IDF intelligence chief and INSS director Amos Yadlin wrote in a position paper on Monday.

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday said he “deeply” regretted opposition to former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad as the organisation’s peace envoy to Libya, days after Washington vetoed the appointment.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday spoke with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, effectively burying the hatchet after a crisis in bilateral relations due to Kiev’s support for a United Nations Security Council resolution critical of the settlement enterprise.

Iran confirmed on Wednesday that it had tested a ballistic missile, but denied that was a breach of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

Iran on Tuesday warned the United States against “creating new tensions” over its ballistic missile tests as Washington called for urgent talks at the UN Security Council on the issue.

Iran on Monday tested a ballistic missile with a range of 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) and a payload heavy enough to carry a nuclear warhead, US officials said.

US President Donald Trump will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Feb. 15, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer announced on Monday.