Security Council Holds Emergency Meeting on Mideast Tensions After Terror Chiefs Killed

Security Council holds emergency meeting on Mideast tensions after terror chiefs killed

Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday

At UN, US calls for pressuring Iran ‘to stop escalating its proxy conflict against Israel, others’

UN Security Council countries on Wednesday call for stepped-up diplomatic efforts to avert a wider Middle East conflict, during the emergency meeting called after the killings of two terror leaders raised tensions.China, Russia, Algeria and others condemn the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, which Iran’s UN ambassador calls an act of terrorism, while the US, UK and France raise what they say is Iranian support for destabilizing actors in the region.

China, Russia, Algeria and others condemn the assassination of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, which Iran’s UN ambassador calls an act of terrorism, while the US, UK and France raise what they say is Iranian support for destabilizing actors in the region.

Israel’s deputy representative to the UN, Jonathan Miller, calls on the Security Council to condemn Iran for support of regional terrorism and increase sanctions on Tehran.

Security Council holding emergency meeting on Mideast tensions after terror chiefs killed

The UN Security Council is holding an emergency meeting after a set of airstrikes hours apart killed two top terror group officials in the Middle East, raising concerns that a regional war could erupt.

The killings of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Iran and of a top Hezbollah commander in Lebanon have stirred a diplomatic scramble at the UN and elsewhere to try to contain the complex, mounting tensions.

“The various attacks over the past few days represent a serious and dangerous escalation,” UN Undersecretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo says as the council meeting begins. She calls for diplomatic efforts “to change the trajectory and seek a path toward regional peace and stability.”