Israel to skip UN Security Council meeting on Gaza

UNITED NATIONS: Israel will skip an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Gaza scheduled for Tuesday because of the Jewish New Year, its envoy to the UN said calling the timing “regrettable.” As a country directly affected by the deliberations of the UN’s top security body, Israel had been invited to address the Council’s discussion of the devastating conflict in Gaza on the sidelines of the UN’s high-level week.

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