{"id":205154,"date":"2013-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=205154"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:55:02","slug":"auto-insert-205154","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-205154\/","title":{"rendered":"USG for Political Affairs Feltman briefs SecCo\/rocket attack into Israel\/Death of Palestinian prisoner &#8211; Spokesman&#8217;s Office noon briefing (excerpts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:14pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SPOKESPERSON&#8217;S NOON BRIEFING<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>BY MARTIN NESIRKY, <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>SPOKESPERSON FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>TUESDAY,&nbsp;&nbsp;26 FEBRUARY 2013<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#2f2f2f;text-align:center;padding-bottom:10px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>POLITICAL CHIEF: U.N. TROUBLED BY ROCKET ATTACK INTO ISRAEL,<br \/>\n&nbsp;CONCERNED AT DEATH OF PALESTINIAN PRISONER<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#2f2f2f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\/&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-left:-20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<li style=\"color:#2f2f2f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Jeffrey Feltman, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, provided an update on the situation in the Middle East in an open meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday morning. He noted the continued frustration at the failure over many years to break the impasse between the Israelis and Palestinians, but added that it is now time for all of us to act decisively if we are to salvage the two-State solution.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color:#2f2f2f;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">He said that the United Nations was concerned to learn of the death in detention over the weekend of a Palestinian man, Arafat Jaradat, who had been arrested by the Israelis. 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