The United Nations Security Council will convene an emergency session on Thursday to discuss recent violence in Jerusalem where Israeli police clashed with Muslim worshipers at the Temple Mount, fighting that was followed by rocket fire from Gaza into Israel and IDF counterstrikes.
Thursday’s session will take place behind closed doors and was called by the United Arab Emirates — the Arab League’s representative on the council — and China, two UN diplomats for countries on the panel told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.
It will be the fourth emergency session held by the Security Council on Israeli-Palestinian tensions since the establishment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government just over three months ago.
The emergency meeting will take place less than two days after the clashes in Jerusalem ended a relatively calm first two weeks of Ramadan.
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