{"id":298096,"date":"2026-02-18T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298096\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:20:07","slug":"security-council-live-situation-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298096\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Council LIVE: Situation in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Security Council meets at 3 PM (New York time) on Wednesday to discuss the situation in the Middle East, with rising tensions in the occupied West Bank expected to dominate the session. Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo is scheduled to brief members. The meeting follows recent Israeli cabinet decisions expanding control in Areas A, B and C of the West Bank. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has warned that the current trajectory is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2026\/02\/1166927\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eroding the prospect<\/a>\u201d of a two-State solution. Follow the live coverage below, UN News App users <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2026\/02\/1166994\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UN Security Council meets at 3 PM (New York time) on Wednesday to discuss the situation in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-298096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}