The ongoing violence in Israel and the West Bank has international bodies revving up their briefcases for emergency meetings on the matter.
The United Nations Security Council will hold a snap meeting on the Middle East conflict on Thursday morning New York time, as UN chief Ban KI-moon returns from a surprise two-day visit in a failed bid to calm tensions.
Meanwhile, EU foreign policy czar Federica Mogherini says the Quartet will also have a meeting on Israeli Palestinian fighting in Vienna on Friday.
That meeting will come on the heels of a powwow between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the Syrian conflict together with their counterparts from Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Lavrov had proposed that the Quartet meeting be held the same day, given the “extremely tense situation” in the Middle East.
The quartet is composed of Russia, the United States, the European Union and United Nations.
— with AFP
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