Security Council

WATCH: Where was UN, Red Cross during my 491 days of captivity, Eli Sharabi asks UNSC

Released Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi shares his traumatizing experience and his life after returning from horror.

 Former hostage Eli Sharabi shares testimony at the UN Security Council, March 20, 2025.
 PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Turkish parliament in Ankara, earlier this month. He is currently serving the 20th year of the four-year term to which he was elected in 2005

Security officials: PA’s cancellation of terror stipends is a ‘facade’ - exclusive

PICTURE1: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves before voting in the country's presidential election, in Tehran, Iran July 5, 2024.

Iran outraged its ambassador to Lebanon was harmed in pager attack - anaylsis

Footage of Hamas terrorists using UN facilities for cover and transport, May 14, 2024

UN rights chief expresses support for US-proposed Gaza ceasefire deal


UN committee unable to agree on Palestinian bid for full membership

UN Security Council deliberating on Palestinian membership, which would effectively recognize it as a state.

Members of the United Nations Security Council meet on the day of a vote on a Gaza resolution that demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan. March 25, 2024

This is how Iran helped Israel in the war on Hezbollah - opinion

How Iran's involvement shapes Israel's tactics in countering Hezbollah's threat.

 Nasrallah in a meeting with Iran's foreign minister

UN report claims Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, call for arms embargo

The report presents the alleged genocide as "driven by a genocidal logic integral to [a] settler-colonial project in Palestine."

 People visit the United Nations Headquarters as delegates of the Security Council delayed for one extra day the vote on a proposal to demand that Israel and Hamas allow aid access to the Gaza Strip, December 20, 2023

US locks in UN resolution backing efforts to broker Gaza truce

The US traditionally shields Israel at the UN, but it has also abstained twice, allowing the council to adopt resolutions that aimed to boost aid to Gaza and seeks extended pauses in fighting.

 Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen speaks during a meeting on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas at UN headquarters in New York, US, October 24, 2023

US, UK, France request emergency UN Security Council meeting on Hamas sexual violence

The meeting being requested is to examine the crimes that emerged from the UN report on Hamas's sexual violence on October 7 and the hostage situation in Gaza.

 Women protest at Habima Square in Tel Aviv against the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, June 28, 2022.

Itamar Ben-Gvir denied intel briefings; calls claims 'childish'

The Telegraph report: Itamar Ben-Gvir blocked from intel briefings after leak incidents; had prior accusations of illegal photography in classified meetings.

Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir

UNSC deeply concerned over Gaza aid distribution disaster

The IDF has dismissed all claims that it deliberately targeted civilians during the incident. 

 Thousands of Palestinians converge on aid trucks in the Gaza Strip, February 29, 2024

Security Council 'perhaps fatally' undermined by Gaza, Ukraine deadlock, says UN chief

Guterres said the UN Security Council often found itself deadlocked and "unable to act on the most significant peace and security issues of our time."

 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres holds a press conference, ahead of G20 Summit in New Delhi, India, September 8, 2023.

US casts third veto of UN action since start of Israel-Hamas war

The Algerian-drafted resolution vetoed by the US did not link a ceasefire to the release of hostages.

 US AMBASSADOR to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks at the Security Council on Friday. She said that she couldn't understand those refusing to condemn the atrocities committed by Hamas.

Netanyahu thanks Biden for backing Israel after UNSC vote on Gaza aid

Gilad Erdan thanked US for standing on Israel's side throughout the negotiations on the UN Security Council resolution and maintaining defined red lines; resolution does not condemn Hamas.

 Ambassador Gilad Erdan at a UN Security Council meeting on Operation House and Garden in Jenin, July 27, 2023.

UNSC calls for extended pause to Gaza war in first vote on conflict

The US said it supported the resolution but did not vote for it because the text failed to condemn Hamas.

 A MEETING of the UN Security Council earlier this year.