UN Security Council to hold emergency session on Ben Gvir’s visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting to discuss Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s Tuesday visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. After Ben Gvir’s visit to Judaism’s holiest site prompted international condemnation, the United Arab Emirates and China, which are both on the U.N. Security Council, asked the international body to “deal with” the matter. The emergency session will be held at 3 p.m. EST, according to the Palestinian envoy to