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United Nations In order to become a full member of the United Nations, diplomats say Palestine A Security Council vote on the request is expected on Thursday or Friday.

Earlier, several diplomatic sources told AFP news agency that the vote would take place on Thursday, but the situation has changed after some member states called for the vote to be held on Friday.

According to several diplomatic sources, no final decision had been taken by Wednesday night. “It is still in limbo,” Slovenia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Zabogar, told reporters.

However, Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour said that ‘voting will be held tomorrow at three o’clock.’

Malta’s diplomatic mission, which took over the Security Council presidency in April, has also yet to confirm a schedule.

However, diplomatic experts say that whatever the history, this attempt of Palestinian membership Israel It seems to have failed due to the opposition of America, its biggest supporter.

Palestine, which has had observer status at the world body since 2012, has been lobbying for years for full membership, which would amount to recognition of a Palestinian state.

Any request to become a member of the United Nations must first go through the Security Council, where Israel’s allies America It has the power of veto and is then ratified by the General Assembly.

Gaza In light of Israel’s aggression, the Palestinians last week revived their 2011 UN membership application, prompting the Security Council to begin a formal review process.

On the other hand, the head of the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) has said that the man-made famine in the Gaza Strip is strengthening its grip.

According to the Reuters news agency, UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini told the 15-member UN Security Council: ‘Today, there is an insidious campaign to end the operations of UNRWA, which includes There will be serious implications for international peace and security.’

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) provides education, health and aid to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

Since the Israeli offensive on Gaza began six months ago, top UN officials have called UNRWA the backbone of aid operations.

“The man-made famine in Gaza is tightening its grip,” Lazzarini said. In the north, infants and young children have begun to die of malnutrition and dehydration. Food and clean water await across the border. But UNRWA was not allowed to deliver this aid and save lives.’

Israel has long complained about UNRWA, and in January a dozen members of its 13,000 staff in Gaza were accused of involvement in an October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel that killed 1,200 people. were killed

According to the authorities of the health department of Gaza, more than 33 thousand people have lost their lives in Israel’s aggression, most of them are civilians, women and children.

The Insoumise France party (LFI) announced this Tuesday the call for a demonstration, on September 7, against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision not to appoint a prime minister from the leftist New Popular Front (NFP) bloc, which achieved the largest number of seats in legislative elections.

“The president’s decision seriously endangers democracy, by rejecting the result of the polls and a government of the New Popular Front, which won the elections,” LFI said in a statement.

“Given the exceptional gravity of the situation, we call for a firm response from French society,” he added, before trusting that the political, union and associative forces “involved in the defense of democracy will join this call.”

The LFI announcement comes after Marine Tondelier, the main official of the environmentalist party EELV – also part of the NFP -, advanced that there would be “mobilizations” of protest against Macron, although she stressed that they would be “peaceful.”

The Elysée announced yesterday Monday that Macron would not appoint the NFP candidate, Lucie Castets, as prime minister, because that bloc would have no other parliamentary support and would be overthrown by a motion of censure from the other forces.

The presidential headquarters announced that Macron would resume his political consultations today with “party officials and personalities who are distinguished by their experience in the service of the State.”

However, there has been no official announcement of today’s meeting program, although it is known that neither LFI nor the far-right of Marine Le Pen and its allies would be among those invited.

Macron has already met with representatives of a parliamentary group that brings together regionalist and nationalist deputies from various territories in metropolitan and overseas France.

Later, it has been leaked that he will receive the leaders of the conservative party Los Republicanos, which, although it has rejected a coalition with the Macronist bloc, does not rule out collaboration.

However, the left – outside of LFI – refused to go to the Elysée, so the consultations will be brief.

“I refuse to be complicit in a parody of democracy,” said the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, this morning in an interview on the France 2 channel. “What is actually happening (.,.) is that (Macron) which does not want the program of the New Popular Front to be applied, that we repeal the pension reform” of last year, he added.