Outgoing top UN envoy Tor Wennesland has blamed weak diplomacy for the Israel-Hamas war, saying the world leaders have wrongly focused on short-term fixes, including small-scale humanitarian initiatives in Gaza, instead of pursuing a more ambitious push for a Palestinian state, according to a report Tor Wennesland, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, speaks during a …
UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland says deaths from violence so far this year are the highest recorded in the conflict between Israel and Palestinians since 2005. More than 200 Palestinians and nearly 30 Israelis have been killed so far this year in the occupied West Bank and Israel – a level of violence surpassing last year’s entire death toll …