Today, Sunday, the UN Security Council will hold an emergency session, the third in less than a week, to discuss the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, in light of the escalation of Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip and occupied Jerusalem, and for his part, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that the root cause of the deterioration of the situation is the absence of a just solution. For the Palestinian cause long ago.

Russian news agency TASS quoted a UN source as saying that representatives of the Israelis and Palestinians, as well as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, will deliver statements before an open, remote session of the Security Council today devoted to discussing the escalation in the region.

The same source added that - in addition to the 15 member states of the Security Council - representatives of Palestine, Israel and a number of countries in the region, including Jordan and Egypt, will participate in the meeting.

Yesterday, Guterres expressed his dissatisfaction with the increasing number of civilian casualties as a result of the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip, and expressed his deep annoyance over the destruction of an Israeli raid yesterday, a residential tower in Gaza that houses the offices of many international media institutions and dozens of apartments.

Today's meeting will be the third for the Security Council on the situations in Palestine and Israel in less than a week. However, it is the first time that representatives of the two parties to the conflict participate in the discussions.

Chinese Foreign Minister: The Security Council must assume its responsibility to seek calm in the region (Anatolia)

Previous failure

The previous meeting of the Security Council, last Wednesday, had failed - in a closed meeting - to formulate a unified statement calling for a halt to the military escalation, due to the objection of the United States.

Yesterday, the Chinese representative to the Security Council, Zhang Jun, said that he would chair an urgent and open session of the council on Sunday on the military escalation in Gaza, adding that the council should "speak with one voice for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza."

In a related context, the Chinese Foreign Minister said today that the root cause of the deterioration of the situation is the lack of a just solution to the Palestinian issue for a long time, adding that the Security Council should emphasize "the two-state solution and the resumption of negotiations on this basis," saying that the final way to solve the Palestinian issue lies in Implement the two-state solution.

The Chinese official stressed the need for the Security Council to assume its responsibility in endeavoring to seek calm and maintain regional peace, adding that the Middle East peace process "has deviated in recent years from its original course."

Positions and coordination

Yesterday, Malaysia and Indonesia called on the Security Council to intervene to save the lives of the Palestinians, and Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said in a televised speech, "I and the Indonesian President (Joko Widodo) agreed that the international community, especially the Security Council, should stop all forms of violence committed by Israel. And saving the lives of the Palestinians. "

On the other hand, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said the day before yesterday that Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed with his Tunisian counterpart Othman Al-Jarndi coordinating a unified Arab position on Gaza in the Security Council session, and the Tunisian presidency stated that Tunisia, as a non-permanent member of the Security Council, is conducting consultations to put an end to the escalation in Gaza. An end to more casualties.