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Situation in West Bank requires urgent action: UN envoy

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UN-West Bank/Israel

Situation in West Bank requires urgent action: UN envoy

Dateline : Aug 11, 2026/Recent/File

Location : United Nations

Duration : 2'02

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UN Headquarters, New York City - Aug 11, 2026 (UNTV - For news purpose only/No archive/Not for other production use)
1. Meeting in progress
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator, Office of UN Special Coordinator for Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO):
"We must be clear-eyed about what is taking place. These are interconnected steps, not isolated developments. They are reshaping the West Bank, weakening Palestinian governance and advancing de-facto annexation."
3. Meeting in progress
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Riyad Mansour, Palestine's permanent observer to United Nations:
"I appeal to you, the Security Council, show our people that there is a peaceful path that leads to freedom, dignity and security, and demonstrate to the Israeli people that this path of colonizing Palestinian land and controlling and destroying Palestinian lives is not the path that leads to security, peace and acceptance."
5. Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to UN, speaking
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to United Nations:
"Protecting civilians is not an empty slogan but a legal obligation under international law for occupying powers. Israel must implement UN Security Council Resolution 2334, cease settlement activities, curb settler violence, and ensure serious accountability."

West Bank - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Various of vehicles, smoke, armed Israeli soldiers, Palestinians

FILE: Tulkarm, West Bank - Oct 2024 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
8. Various of destroyed buildings, displaced people walking among ruins

Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip - Aug 1, 2026 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
9. Various of destroyed displacement camp, damaged tents, displaced people clearing debris

West Bank - Recent (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
10. Various of separation wall, traffic, pedestrians


The situation in the West Bank must be treated as an emergency requiring urgent action, UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Ramiz Alakbarov said Tuesday.

The concern is not only the continued expansion of Israeli settlements, but the speed and systematic manner in which new facts are being created on the ground, he warned in a briefing to the Security Council.

New outposts are established, often with state support, and can be retroactively authorized or incorporated into the wider settlement system. From these outposts, settler violence and intimidation have driven the displacement of Palestinian communities, said Alakbarov.

The spread of agricultural and grazing outposts is deeply troubling as well. Requiring only a few settlers, they enable control over vast areas of land. Israeli monitoring organizations report that agricultural and pastoral outposts now exercise effective control over close to 20 percent of the West Bank, he said.

"We must be clear-eyed about what is taking place. These are interconnected steps, not isolated developments. They are reshaping the West Bank, weakening Palestinian governance and advancing de-facto annexation," said the envoy.

The stakes are high. If the West Bank continues to unravel, it will further erode the prospects for ending the Israeli occupation and realizing a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian peace based on the two-state solution, he warned.

Alakbarov also warned that the West Bank is at the breaking point, noting that the situation has not been a sudden deterioration but the result of decades of unresolved conflict that has deepened the unlawful Israeli occupation, driven the Palestinian Authority to the brink of collapse, and undermined the prospects for an independent, viable, and sovereign Palestinian state.

As of Monday, 76 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank in 2026, including 18 children, by Israeli forces or settlers. Three Israelis, including one civilian and two members of Israeli security forces, were killed in confrontations with Palestinians in the West Bank, the envoy noted.

Some 127 Palestinian communities have experienced full or partial displacement since January 2023, including 47 that have been entirely displaced, affecting more than 6,390 Palestinians. In 2026 alone, about 3,800 Palestinians, nearly half of them children, have been displaced due to settler violence, demolitions and evictions, he said.

Settler violence has reached unprecedented levels. So far this year, the UN has documented more than 1,430 incidents involving Israeli settlers that resulted in casualties, property damage or both, affecting approximately 260 Palestinian communities. Many incidents occurred in the presence of Israeli forces, said Alakbarov.

Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, told the meeting that Israel's goal has never changed, that is, to retain the fewest Palestinians and occupy the largest area of Palestinian land.

"I appeal to you, the Security Council, show our people that there is a peaceful path that leads to freedom, dignity and security, and demonstrate to the Israeli people that this path of colonizing Palestinian land and controlling and destroying Palestinian lives is not the path that leads to security, peace and acceptance," he said.

Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the UN, pointed out that the situation in the West Bank and Gaza has deteriorated sharply. He said the root cause is that the basic principles of international law have not been observed, and the rights to survival and development enjoyed by the Palestinian people have long been ignored.

The international community must promptly correct all wrongful words and deeds that deny or infringe upon the legitimate rights of Palestine and ensure that the Palestinian people obtain equal rights, said Fu.

"Protecting civilians is not an empty slogan but a legal obligation under international law for occupying powers. Israel must implement UN Security Council Resolution 2334, cease settlement activities, curb settler violence, and ensure serious accountability," said Fu.

Fu emphasized that the international community should fully respect the will of the Palestinian people, adhere to the principle of "Palestinians governing Palestine," return to the right track of the two-State solution, and realize the independence and statehood of Palestine at an early date.

Only in this way can the peaceful coexistence of Palestine and Israel be achieved and the long-term stability and security of the Middle East be realized, he said.