The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question - Security Council, 10003rd meeting

Security Council debates Gaza crisis as UN Chief sees ‘glimmer of hope’ in two-State momentum.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 02:49:38
• Production Date: 23 September 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: ANTONIO GUTERRES
• Subject Topical: CONFERENCES; GENOCIDE; MIDDLE EAST SITUATION; TERRORISM; MEMBERSHIP; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; DISPLACED PERSONS; MILITARY ACTIVITY; HUNGER; HAMAS; PALESTINE QUESTION; TWO-STATE SOLUTION; INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
• Geographic Subject: MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE; GAZA; WEST BANK
• MAMS Id: 3462455
• Parent Id: 3449732
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 10003 MIDDLE EAST PALESTINE 23 SEP 2025 AM

Description

Amid Israel’s intensifying ground offensive in Gaza City and the international community’s growing recognition of the State of Palestine, the Security Council met again today to address the deepening crisis in the Middle East and to underscore the urgency of a two-State solution.

The meeting comes on the heels of the High-Level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, which on 22 September further galvanized broad international support for the rights and sovereignty of a Palestinian State. (For background, see Press Release PAL/2251.)

“We are confronting one of the darkest chapters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” said António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, noting that violence has only escalated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory nearly two years after “the horrific Hamas terror attacks of 7 October [2023] and the devastating Israeli military response”. The onslaught in Gaza City, he warned, is deepening an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis, trapping civilians and hostages "under relentless bombardment and deprived of food, water, electricity and medicine”.

• Presidency: Cho Hyun, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
• Briefer: António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

Statements:

• President of the Council (as Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea)
• Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pakistan
• Tanja Fajon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Slovenia
• Ahmed Attaf, Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Community Abroad and African Affairs, Algeria
• Musa Timothy Kabba, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Sierra Leone
• Hugh Hilton Todd, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Guyana
• Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Denmark
• Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Georgios Gerapetritis, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Greece
• Carlos Arturo Hoyos Boyd, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Panama
• Somalia
• France
• United States of America
• China
• Russian Federation
• Observer State of Palestine
• Jonas Gahr Støre, Prime Minister, Norway
• Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, Crown Prince, Kuwait
• Statement under Rule 39: His Excellency Ahmed Aboulgheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States
• Statement under Rule 39: Her Excellency Kaja Kallas, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Vice-President of the European Commission
• Nuh Yilmaz, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Türkiye (on behalf of: Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC))
• Egypt
• Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser Al-Misnad, Minister of State for International Cooperation, Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Further statement: United States of America

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