Security Council plans to vote on UN membership for Palestine. But the US will block it
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote Thursday on a resolution that would allow the state of Palestine to join the United Nations as a full member, a step the United States opposes and will veto if necessary. Malta, which holds the council presidency this month, announced that the vote will take place following a ministerial meeting on the Palestinians’ bid to raise their status from a non-member observer state to full membership. This is the second Palestinian attempt to become the 194th member of the United Nations, and it comes as the war in Gaza, now in its seventh month, has put the more than 75-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict at center stage.
