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Israel summons ambassadors of 12 UN Security Council countries
26.12.2016 Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed the foreign ministry to summon the ambassadors of the 12 countries in the Security Council with whom Israel has diplomatic ties for a talk in which Netanyahu was expected to reprimand them over the resolution.
The summoning of the representatives, though expected, was unusual at is took place on Christmas Day.
The ministry has already summoned the ambassadors from China, Russia, France, the UK, Spain, Egypt, Japan, the Ukraine, Angola and Uruguay.
Seeing as this summoning is taking place on Christmas, the majority of the ambassadors are on vacation in their countries and in some of the cases, their deputies or lower ranks are expected to come in their place.
Additionally, Netanyahu has reportedly instructed his minsters not to travel to the countries who voted in favor of the resolution.
He also reportedly cancelled a meeting with British Prime Minster Theresa May at the Davos Economic Forum in Switzerland, which is scheduled to take place in January.
The resolution was passed in the 15-member Security Council because the U.S. broke with its long-standing approach of diplomatically shielding Israel and did not wield its veto power, instead abstaining.
With the help of the new Trump administration, Netanyahu also plans to target UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which Jerusalem says is investing a great deal of manpower and resources in moves meant to undermine and harm the State of Israel.
According to the Israeli government, there is evidence to indicate teachers and other workers in the agency regularly incite the Palestinian population against Israel.
Israel will also seek to adjourn the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), which Jerusalem says is a UN body whose entire purpose to "preserve the Palestinian narrative." With this, Israeli officials claim, the UN is actually taking sides in the conflict.
CEIRPP often pushes anti-Israeli resolutions at the UN, accusing it of "ethnically cleansing the Palestinians" and blaming it for the violence that has plagued Israel for over a year.
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