The U.N. Security Council rushed back to its chamber on Sunday for another “emergency” meeting on the Israel-Hamas war—this time to deal with Israel’s plans to take over Gaza City.
The meeting was requested on Friday and initially scheduled for Saturday, but was pushed off to accommodate the Israeli delegation due to Shabbat.
Jonathan Miller, deputy Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, noted the unusual speed with which the Security Council scheduled the meeting.
“This chamber has suddenly discovered a sense of immediacy, but tragically, it is not the urgency to demand the release of the 50 innocent souls held for almost 700 days in Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza,” he said. “It is not the urgency to stand against the murder, torture and abduction of innocent Israelis and foreign nati