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In its final briefing to the Security Council, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov urged Council members to “persevere in our efforts to prevent violent escalation and encourage leaders on both sides to takes steps toward enabling a return to negotiations, not a retrenchment of the conflict.” UNIFEED

In his briefing to the Security Council, Nickolay Mladenov, the Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process called on Israel to “cease demolitions, seizures of Palestinian property and efforts to relocate communities” following reports that Israeli authorities “carried out the most extensive demolition in the occupied West Bank in the past decade.” UNIFEED

The acting Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Yvonne Helle, said that 73 people – more than half of whom were children – were displaced when Israeli authorities demolished their homes earlier this week in the community of Humsa Al Baqi’a, on the West Bank. UNIFEED

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said the viability of the Palestinian Authority (PA) is being undermined by an economic and fiscal crisis and appealed to the Palestinian leadership to “resume its coordination with Israel and accept its clearance revenues – money that belongs to the Palestinian people and cannot be replaced by donor funding.” UNIFEED

A UN Spokesperson said that representatives from the governments of Israel, Lebanon, and the United States met today to launch discussions aimed at reaching consensus on a common Israel-Lebanon maritime boundary. UNIFEED

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) welcomed an agreement between Lebanon and Israel on a framework of negotiations on maritime and land border demarcation between the two countries. UNIFEED

Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, told the Security Council that “we are again at a pivotal moment in the search for peace as a convergence of destabilizing factors threatens to pull Israelis and Palestinians further towards a one-state reality of perpetual occupation and conflict.” UNIFEED

Hailing Israel’s recent peace agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “for far too long the Palestinians wielded a veto on peace between Israel and the broader Arab world” and "all progress was halted and held hostage by completely unrealistic Palestinian demands.” UNIFEED

Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said with the signing of a “historic peace accord” with Israel, his country was able to freeze Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank. UNIFEED

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the recent normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain violate the Arab Peace Initiative adding that the PLO “has not given a mandate to anyone to speak or negotiate on behalf of the Palestinian people.” UNIFEED