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Addressing the Security Council, Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said that Israel currently holds 1,264 Palestinians in administrative detention, “the highest number in over a decade.” UNIFEED

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan Al Furhan Al-Saud, in his address to the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, offered his country’s vision on the various conflicts affecting the region. UNIFEED

Addressing the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “we must not give the Palestinians a veto over new peace treaties with Arab states.” UNIFEED

Following a Ministerial Meeting on UNRWA co-hosted by Jordan and Sweden, the Head of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini and Jordan’s Minister of Foreign affairs Ayman Safadi called for increased and predictable funding for Palestinian refugees. UNIFEED

In his address to the General Assembly high-level debate, Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas called for the holding of an international peace conference for achieving peace in the Middle East. UNIFEED

World leaders gathered at UN Headquarters for the General Assembly’s annual General Debate. UNIFEED

Speaking at the High-level week of the General Assembly, the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro Urrego, asked the United Nations to hold two peace conferences, one on Ukraine and one on Palestine. UNIFEED

Josep Borrell, European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs, said, “In the last 30 years after the Oslo Agreement, we cannot say that we are closer to peace between Israel and Palestine.” He added, “If we really want a two-state solution, everybody has to support it in practical terms.” UNIFEED

Ahead of next week’s High Level meeting at the General Assembly, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, said today that Member States “will be gathering at a time when humanity faces huge challenges” and that “people are looking to their leaders for a way out of this mess.” UNIFEED

According to the UN Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), for the first time in eleven years, Palestine refugee students in Yarmouk camp in Syria are going back to school in the camp. UNIFEED