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UNTSO
United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UN-led)
Authorization date: 05/48
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UNSCO
The Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Authorization date: 06/94
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TIPH-2
Temporary International Presence in Hebron (Other)
Authorization date: 02/97
EUBAM Rafah
EU Border Assistance Mission at Rafah Crossing Point (EU)
Authorization date: 11/05
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EUPOL COPPS
EU Police Co-ordinating Office for Palestinian Police Support (EU)
Authorization date: 11/05
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The Palestinian Authority has agreed to resume coordination with Israeli authorities, which has been suspended since May over Israel's plans to annex parts of the West Bank, Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh said Tuesday.
US President Donald Trump announced Friday that Sudan is in the process of normalizing its ties with Israel, making it the third Arab state to do so as part of recent US-brokered deals.
Israel has stopped granting any visas to employees at the United Nations’ human rights agency, effectively forcing the body’s top staff to leave, Middle East Eye can reveal.
Israeli and Palestinian leaders, and their international partners, must urgently resume peace efforts “before it is too late”, UN Middle East envoy Nikolay Mladenov told the Security Council on Tuesday, echoing the Secretary-General.
Deal between the rival Palestinian factions follows normalisation agreements between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain.
President Trump said the agreements to normalize relations marked “the dawn of a new Middle East,” but some analysts said his claims were overblown.
Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas said Monday they had reached a Qatari-mediated deal with Israel to end more than three weeks of cross-border attacks. In the latest escalation, Israel has bombed Gaza almost daily since August 6 in response to airborne incendiary devices and, less frequently, rockets launched across the border.
The recent agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates has the potential to change dynamics across the Middle East, the UN’s top envoy in the region told the Security Council on Tuesday, urging Palestinian and Israeli leaders to re-engage in efforts to resolve their protracted conflict.
An announcement on Israel's planned annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank was not imminent on Wednesday, the date set by the coalition government to start the widely criticised process, its foreign minister said.
[…] EUBAM Rafah was launched on 25 November 2005 following the Israeli disengagement from Gaza. It is tasked with providing a third party presence at the Rafah Crossing Point between the Gaza Strip and Egypt and contributing to strengthening Palestinian Authority’s border capacities. EUPOL COPPS was established on 1 January 2006. It is tasked with contributing to the Palestinian Authority’s efforts to establish effective and sustainable policing and wider criminal justice arrangements, in cooperation with the other institution building programmes.