The UN General Assembly will hold an emergency meeting next Wednesday at 19:00 GMT to vote on an Arab-backed resolution on Gaza the body’s president Miroslav Lajcak announced Friday.
The resolution will condemn Israel and will be similar to one vetoed by the United States in the Security Council last week which called for protecting Palestinians from Israeli aggression according to diplomats.
It comes as four Palestinians were killed by Israeli shooting on the Gaza border on Friday as weeks of deadly clashes with protesters continued.
The Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour said the emergency meeting had been called for by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League.
