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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Palestinian UN bid

Results of a UN General Assembly vote on a resolution for the Security Council to reconsider and support the full membership of Palestine into the United Nations, displayed at the UN headquarters in New York City on May 10, 2024. (Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)
May 10, 2024, 9:10 pm
UN General Assembly adopts resolution boosting standing of Palestinian mission
Overwhelming vote urges UNSC to reconsider statehood bid; move gives Palestinians spot in UNGA’s member’s hall, but not voting rights; Israel slams ‘prize for Hamas’
By Reuters and Jacob Magid
Seen through a Palestinian flag, people rally in support of the Palestinian UN bid for observer state status, in the West Bank city of Nablus, November 29, 2012. (AP/Nasser Ishtayeh)
April 3, 2024, 8:41 am
Palestinians officially relaunch bid to become United Nations member state
Palestine Liberation Organization seeks recognition as state from world body, which granted it observer status in 2012, but vote on application can be vetoed by US
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Palestinian United Nations envoy Riyad Mansour speaks during a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, at the UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. (Angela Weiss/AFP)
April 1, 2024, 11:04 pm
Palestinian Authority to push for vote this month on full United Nations membership
Bid must be approved by Security Council, can be vetoed by US; Israel says support for measure would be ‘prize to terror’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour addresses the United Nations Security Council, at UN headquarters, January 22, 2019. (AP/Richard Drew)
January 29, 2019, 7:39 am
Blaming US veto, Palestinian envoy says UN membership bid on hold
Riyad Mansour argues that Palestinians should not need to negotiate for independence, but says they could come to the table ‘if conditions are right’
By AP
Husam Zomlot, the PLO envoy to Washington, speaks to reporters in Washington, DC, Aug. 17, 2017. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)
September 28, 2017, 6:34 pm
Israel wants US to shut Palestinians’ DC office — report
Reported move seen as retaliation for Ramallah’s Interpol membership and ongoing efforts to prosecute Israelis at the ICC
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 2013 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
December 31, 2014, 11:54 am
PM thanks African leaders for thwarting Palestinian UN bid
Netanyahu calls Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan; Liberman says vote shows ‘provocation will not achieve anything’
By ToI Staff and AP
Dina Kawar, Jordan's UN envoy, accompanied by Palestinian envoy Riyad H. Mansour, speaks to journalists following a meeting of Arab delegations to the UN on a draft Security Council resolution regarding Palestinian statehood on December 29, 2014. (photo credit: Devra Berkowitz/UN)
December 30, 2014, 8:51 am
New Palestinian bid calls for E. Jerusalem capital, ‘just’ solution
Draft resolution submitted to Security Council by Jordan after Arab ambassadors endorse changed language; US says it can’t support move
By AP and ToI Staff
A United Nations Security Council meeting on September 19, 2014 (photo credit: US State Department)
December 29, 2014, 6:55 am
Palestinians to submit revised statehood bid for UN vote
Senior PA official Saeb Erekat says Jordan to present document to Security Council Monday, vote likely by Wednesday
By Elhanan Miller, Marissa Newman and AP
Gaza Hamas leaders Ismail Haniya, center, and Mousa Abu Marzouq, right, brandish a weapon as they greet supporters during a parade marking the 27th anniversary of the Islamist movement’s creation on December 14, 2014 in Gaza City. (AFP/MAHMUD HAMS)
December 28, 2014, 2:39 pm
Hamas left out of loop on UN draft proposal, official charges
Leader blasts Abbas for not consulting group on eight amendments to statehood bid; chief Palestinian negotiator says vote Wednesday
By Elhanan Miller and Marissa Newman
PM Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on December 15, 2014 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO / Flash90)
December 21, 2014, 2:45 am
Rivals blast Livni for asking Kerry to delay UN Palestine vote
Netanyahu, Bennett say Hatnua leader looking after her own interests in warning that move could strengthen the right
By Lazar Berman
John Kerry and Tzipi Livni in Jerusalem in March 2013. (photo credit: Matty Stern/US Embassy/Flash90)
December 20, 2014, 12:56 pm
Livni takes credit for ‘guarding Israeli interests’ at UN
Following report of Kerry blocking vote on Palestinian bid before Israeli elections, Hatnua leader says she helped spur US to stall
By ToI Staff
PM Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on December 15, 2014 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO / Flash90)
December 20, 2014, 9:47 am
Kerry said to warn UN vote on Palestine would strengthen Israeli right
Peres, Livni told US secretary such a move before March elections would benefit Netanyahu, Bennett, according to Foreign Policy
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on December 14, 2014 (photo credit: Flash90)
December 18, 2014, 3:19 pm
Abbas favors peace conference idea, limits talks to a year
Palestinians may still sever security ties with Israel, says PA foreign minister, admits UN resolution was submitted hastily due to popular pressure
By Elhanan Miller
US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks next to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (out of frame) during a press conference they gave after a meeting at Narino presidential Palace in Bogota, on December 12, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Guillermo LEGARIA)
December 13, 2014, 1:41 am
Kerry speaks to Abbas, seeks to avert UN Palestinian showdown
Secretary sends condolences on death of PA official, looks to ‘defuse tensions’ as more European parliaments vote for Palestine
By AFP and ToI Staff
The UN Security Council (AP/Jason DeCrow)
November 24, 2014, 6:16 pm
Palestinian FM insists UN bid on course, regardless of Iran
Riyad Al-Maliki says Palestinians will bring draft proposal to a vote within 10 days whether or not it can realistically pass
By Elhanan Miller
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