News Focus: Middle East
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Middle East in Jan-Feb 2012, meeting leaders and talking with ordinary Israelis and Palestinians. UN Photo. See more photos
Latest developments
No breakthrough in efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks, UN envoy reports
UN voices concern over 500,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria
Israel urged to treat Palestinian child detainees in accordance with rights law – UN
30,000 Gaza students in UN school to benefit from computers from Republic of Korea
Ban warns of ‘dangerous standstill’ in Israeli-Palestinian peace process
Middle East Quartet
Statement by the Quartet - 11 April 2012
Key resources:
Question of Palestine
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.
Palestinian application for UN membership
· Palestinian Rights Committee
· UN Information System on the Question of Palestine
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
Statements
Secretary-General
· Speeches
· Spokesperson's statements
Middle East situation
Gaza | Lebanon
· Remarks to the press
Security Council
· Presidential statements
· Press statements
· Meetings
· Briefings by UN officials
Resolutions/reports
Gaza Flotilla Panel Report
Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident
Envoys
UN Missions
UN peace missions
Golan Heights - UNDOF
Lebanon - UNIFIL
Fact sheet | Mandate | Press releases
UN Truce Supervision Organization - UNTSO
Past operations:
Lebanon - UNOGIL
UN Emergency Force - UNEF II
UN Emergency Force - UNEF I
Aid/development
Useful links
Department of Political Affairs - DPA
UN Economic and Social Commission for West Africa - UN-ESCWA
Databases
UN Information System on the Question of Palestine - UNISPAL
Various documents
Report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
Jenin report
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 must do all that we can to advance the peace process to end the occupation and promote a two-state solution. Further delay only increases the risk of renewed conflict.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in remarks to the press at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, 12 Apr '12
