Israeli officials applauded the failure of a U.N. Security Council proposal to send international peacekeepers to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Alon Liel, said the decision was one of Israel’s biggest diplomatic victories at the United Nations in almost two decades.
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