{"id":23953,"date":"2026-02-19T07:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/west-bank-situation-deteriorating-rapidly\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:41","slug":"west-bank-situation-deteriorating-rapidly","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/west-bank-situation-deteriorating-rapidly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216; West Bank situation deteriorating rapidly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">A Ministerial meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council has heard that despite a ceasefire in Gaza, the enclave was still not at peace, while the situation in the occupied West Bank was deteriorating rapidly.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">UN under Secretary General for Political and Peace Building Affairs called for collective action to implement the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire ahead of United States President Donald Trump&#8217;s meeting of the Board of Peace in Washington later Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This meeting followed a joint statement by over 80 UN Ambassadors condemning Israel&#8217;s unilateral decisions and measures aimed at expanding its unlawful presence in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Council was informed that this was a pivotal moment for the Middle East but despite a ceasefire in place and aid into the enclave scaled up, it&#8217;s still not enough, the population remains displaced under extremely harsh living conditions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">While Israeli military action continues to kill dozens of Palestinians, including many women and children and attacks by Palestinians against Israelis have also continued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22735,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-23953","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"UN heard that despite a ceasefire in Gaza, the enclave are still not at peace","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26774,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23953\/revisions\/26774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}