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The Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, said that in 2022 to date, over 150 Palestinians and more than 20 Israelis have been killed in the West Bank and Israel, “the highest numbers of fatalities in years.” UNIFEED

The Secretary-General met in Beirut today with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, and he reiterated his message of solidarity with Lebanon and its people at this difficult time. UNIFIL

Secretary-General António Guterres said “COVID-19 is not going away," and stressed that the world “cannot defeat a pandemic in an uncoordinated way.” UNIFEED

Taliban can’t rule Afghanistan without women, said an Afghan political campaigner Zarifa Ghafari – a former mayor who fled Kabul last month – insisting that the Taliban must allow women to play a meaningful part in Afghanistan’s future. UNTV CH

"I am concerned by the continued tragic loss of life and serious injuries in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland told the Security Council on Monday, calling on Israel to “fulfills its obligation to protect Palestinian civilians from violence, including by Israeli settlers.” UNIFEED

Lynn Hastings, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council, “Beyond the human tragedy for both Palestinians and Israelis, and the physical damage of eleven days of fighting, the economic impact of the escalation in May has further exacerbated the existing humanitarian crisis and severely weakened Gaza’s economy.” UNIFEED

Talking to reporters, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “we cannot walk head on, eyes wide open, into a debt crisis that is foreseeable and preventable,” and stressed that “developing countries urgently need access to additional liquidity, to respond to the pandemic, and to invest in a sustainable and inclusive recovery.” UNIFEED

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland told Security Council that he is “deeply concerned by continued Israeli settlement expansion, particularly into highly sensitive areas, which entrench the Israeli occupation, erode the possibility of a contiguous, independent and viable Palestinian State and further threaten the prospect of achieving a two-State solution.” UNIFEED

The IMF said the approval and rollout of vaccines has boosted expectations of a global recovery and lifted risk asset prices, despite rising COVID-19 cases and persistent uncertainties surrounding the economic outlook on Wednesday. IMF

In a pre-recorded video message to the International Conference in Support of the Lebanese People, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the leadership of Lebanon "to put aside partisan political interests and form a government that adequately protects and responds to the needs of the people." UNIFEED