UN Security Council blasts West Bank plans
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Members of the United Nations Security Council are calling for the Gaza ceasefire deal to become permanent and blasting Israeli efforts to expand control in the West Bank as a threat to prospects of a two-state solution. The U.N. session was taking place Wednesday, on the eve of President Donald Trump’s first Board of Peace gathering to discuss the future of the Palestinian territories. Trump’s new initiative has broader ambitions to broker global conflicts that have raised concerns in some countries that it may attempt to rival the U.N. Security Council. U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz says that unlike the Security Council, the board is “not talking, it is doing.”
