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STORY: UN / PALESTINIAN QUESTION
TRT: 07:03
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 MARCH 2026, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Various shots, UN headquarters
24 MARCH 2026, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator:
“Security Council resolution 2334 (2016) calls on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem” and to “fully respect all of its legal obligations in this regard.” Settlement activity has, nevertheless, continued at high levels. During the reporting period, Israeli planning authorities advanced or approved over 6,000 housing units in the occupied West Bank, including approximately 3,160 housing units in Area C, and 2,850 housing units in East Jerusalem.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator:
“Demolitions and seizures of Palestinian-owned structures also accelerated. Citing the lack of Israeli-issued building permits, which are almost impossible for Palestinians to obtain, Israeli authorities demolished, seized or forced people to demolish 429 structures in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, displacing 575 persons, including 290 children and 150 women. 28 of these structures were donor funded. Evictions of Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem also continued. On 4 January, the Israeli police forcibly evicted two Palestinian families from their apartments in the Batn Al Hawa area of Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, displacing eight people.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator:
“The Security Council, in its resolution 2334 (2016), called upon both parties to refrain from provocative actions, incitement and inflammatory rhetoric. Unfortunately, such acts continued. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad continued to praise terror attacks and to call for additional violence against Israelis. A senior Fatah official called Israel “neo-Nazis,” while another said “Israel is doomed to perish.” Israeli ministers and Members of the Knesset continued to call for the re-establishment of settlements in Gaza, the annexation of the West Bank, the “emigration” of Palestinians from the OPT and for continuing to “kill the idea of a Palestinian state.””
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, High Representative to Gaza, Board of Peace (BoP):
“Today, Phase 1 of the Comprehensive Plan is largely complete. Despite challenges, the ceasefire has held. All hostages have been released and returned to their families. Initial humanitarian aid has been restored and scaled up alongside commercial goods. We should not take this for granted.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, High Representative to Gaza, Board of Peace (BoP):
“The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), led by Dr Ali Shaath, has been constituted. Fifteen Palestinian technocrats, approved by consensus among Palestinian factions, now form the incoming transitional civilian authority for Gaza. Commissioners have been appointed across the critical portfolios — social protection, health, education, infrastructure, security. The NCAG is currently preparing to enter Gaza and my office is supporting them in that process.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, High Representative to Gaza, Board of Peace (BoP):
“Perhaps the most significant development since November is one that, by its nature, has received the least public attention. My office, together with the guarantor states — the United States, Egypt, Türkiye, and Qatar — has developed a comprehensive framework for the decommissioning and reintegration of armed groups in Gaza. This framework is agreed by all guarantors, and has been formally presented to all relevant parties. Serious discussions are underway.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, High Representative to Gaza, Board of Peace (BoP):
“The Comprehensive Plan, agreed by the parties, establishes the principle of one authority, one law, one weapon. That principle applies to all armed actors in the Gaza Strip without exception.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, High Representative to Gaza, Board of Peace (BoP):
“It requires the complete decommissioning of weapons in the Gaza Strip and putting them under the control of the transitional Palestinian authority.”
16. Med shot, Israeli Ambassador
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, High Representative to Gaza, Board of Peace (BoP):
“I say this directly to those in Israel and elsewhere who argue that military control is the only option: the evidence of the last twenty years says otherwise. Verified decommissioning and accountable Palestinian governance does not trade away security. It can achieve what military action alone has not, provided it is given the space and support to succeed.”
18. Wide shot, Security Council
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Nickolay Mladenov, High Representative to Gaza, Board of Peace (BoP):
“That is the choice before the parties. And that is the choice before this Council. A renewed war, or a new beginning. The status quo, or a better future. There is no third option.”
20. Wide shot, Security Council
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Waltz, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“I would like to remind everyone in this chamber that the American people care for stability and prosperity in Gaza and in the West Bank as well. President Trump has been clear: the United States is opposed to annexation of the West Bank. Period.”
22. Wide shot, Security Council
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Palestine:
“Israel must abandon its plans to annex over half of Gaza and over half of the West Bank and to displace the Palestinian population. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, constitute a single territorial unit. It is Palestinian land. It is not for sale. It is not for grabs by anyone. It is ours.”
24. Wide shot, Security Council
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Danny Danon, Ambassador, Representative to the United Nations, Israel:
“Israel fully support President Trump's 20-point Peace Plan and Security Council Resolution 2803, and we continue to meet our obligations under Phase 2. But that process cannot move forward while Hamas remains armed. And let me be clear, the fact that we are acting forcefully against Iran and Hezbollah does not mean we are any less focused on Gaza. It is the opposite. In Gaza, we are confronting the same radical extremist ideology.”
26. Wide shot, end of the Security Council’s meeting
27. Wide shot, ambassadors stepping to the stakeout’s area dais
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Pakistan:
“This illegal settlement policy and Israeli settlers continuous and escalating attacks against the Palestinian civilian population, as well as the violence against Palestinian communities, including the recent killing of Palestinian children by Israeli forces, are unacceptable and must be brought to an immediate end. And we call for those responsible to be held to account.”
29. Wide shot, ambassadors leaving the stakeout area
The United Nations Security Council met to receive briefings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with a senior UN official reporting that Israeli planning authorities had advanced or approved over 6,000 housing units in occupied Palestinian territory during the reporting period.
“Security Council resolution 2334 (2016) calls on Israel to ‘immediately and completely cease all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem,’” Ramiz Alakbarov, the UN's Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process said to the Security Council today (24 March). “Settlement activity has, nevertheless, continued at high levels,” he added.
Alakbarov told the Council that Israeli authorities had demolished, seized or forced people to demolish 429 structures in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, displacing 575 persons, including 290 children and 150 women. He said 28 of the structures were donor funded.
He added that on Jan 4, Israeli police forcibly evicted two Palestinian families from their apartments in the Batn Al Hawa area of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, displacing eight people.
Alakbarov also said Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad had continued to praise terror attacks and call for additional violence against Israelis, while Israeli ministers and members of the Knesset had continued to call for re-establishment of settlements in Gaza, annexation of the West Bank and the “emigration” of Palestinians from the occupied Palestinian territory.
Nickolay Mladenov, High Representative to Gaza for the Board of Peace, told the Council that Phase 1 of the Comprehensive Plan was largely complete. “Despite challenges, the ceasefire has held,” he said. “All hostages have been released and returned to their families.”
Mladenov said a National Committee for the Administration of Gaza had been constituted, led by Dr. Ali Shaath, with 15 Palestinian technocrats forming an incoming transitional civilian authority. He said his office was supporting the committee as it prepared to enter Gaza.
He said his office and guarantor states (the United States, Egypt, Türkiye and Qatar) had developed a framework for the decommissioning and reintegration of armed groups in Gaza. “Serious discussions are underway,” he said.
Mladenov said the Comprehensive Plan established “the principle of one authority, one law, one weapon,” adding that it required “the complete decommissioning of weapons in the Gaza Strip and putting them under the control of the transitional Palestinian authority.”
Mladenov also said, “Verified decommissioning and accountable Palestinian governance does not trade away security.”
“There is no third option,” he added. “A renewed war, or a new beginning. The status quo, or a better future.”
U.S. Permanent Representative Mike Waltz said President Trump opposed annexation of the West Bank. “The American people care for stability and prosperity in Gaza and in the West Bank as well,” Waltz said. “The United States is opposed to annexation of the West Bank. Period.”
Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour said Israel must abandon plans to annex portions of Gaza and the West Bank. “The Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, constitute a single territorial unit,” he said. “It is Palestinian land. It is not for sale. It is not for grabs.”
Danny Danon, Israeli Ambassador, said, “Israel fully support President Trump's 20-point Peace Plan and Security Council Resolution 2803, and we continue to meet our obligations under Phase 2. But that process cannot move forward while Hamas remains armed. And let me be clear, the fact that we are acting forcefully against Iran and Hezbollah does not mean we are any less focused on Gaza. It is the opposite. In Gaza, we are confronting the same radical extremist ideology.”
Before the Security Council meeting, Pakistan's Permanent Representative Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said to reporters that Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian civilians and “the recent killing of Palestinian children by Israeli forces are unacceptable and must be brought to an immediate end.”
