News Focus: Middle East
Key Resources
View of Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza City. IRIN
The UN has been working on the question of Palestine since the first special session of the General Assembly in April 1947, which set up a body to investigate the issue. Since then, the UN's work on the issue has continued to adapt to address changing realities on the ground.
Issues in Focus
- Quartet meetings, statements, action
- Road Map to Israeli-Palestinian peace
- Separation Wall - International Court of Justice advisory opinion and its aftermath
- Two States: Israel and Palestine - Security Council affirms the vision
- Security Council briefings by the United Nations Secretariat
Secretary-General
- Speeches
- Media
Security Council
Secretary-General
General Assembly
- GA Resolutions
- Subsidiary bodies:
Gaza Flotilla Panel Report
Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident
Security Council
Economic and Social Council
Human Rights council
Nickolay Mladenov
Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO)
Terje Roed-Larsen
Sigrid Kaag
Special Coordinator for Lebanon(UNSCOL)
UN Peacekeeping Missions
Past operations
- Report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
- Jenin report
- Statements/press releases
- International donors report on impact of Israel's separation barrier on Palestinian livelihood
- "Two Years of Intifada, Closures and Palestinian Economic Crisis" report
- Study on the Environment of the Occupied Palestinian Territories
- Report on the impact of closures on Palestinian productive activities
We have all fallen into the paradigm of managing, rather than resolving the [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict.
Nickolay Mladenov, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, in remarks to Security Council, 25 Jan '18
Video
UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov briefs the Security Council, 25 Jul '17
