Palestine welcomes Russia's efforts to reassemble the Middle East Quartet to mediate an end to fighting in Israel and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian ambassador to Russia told Sputnik on Monday

Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has discussed the renewed hostilities in and around the Gaza Strip during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, calling missile launches from the enclave "unacceptable," the Agenzia Nova news agency reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources

The UN Security Council is currently working on a draft statement on the Israeli-Palestinian escalation that entered its second week, a diplomatic source at the Security Council told Sputnik on Monday

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the Biden administration to step in in order to put an end to "Israeli aggression" and help find a political solution to the ongoing crisis on the border with Gaza, the WAFA news agency reported on Monday

The UN General Assembly will on Thursday meet for an open discussion on the deadly escalation between Israel and Palestine, the President of the General Assembly, Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir, said in a statement on Monday