The UN Security Council will hold its regular open session today, Friday, on the "situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question," followed by a closed consultation session.

Acting Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Sigrid Kaag, will present a quarterly update on the implementation of Resolution 2334 of 2016, which called on Israel to cease all its colonial activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.

The Council held a session on Thursday at the request of the United States and France regarding Gaza, preceded by a session on Wednesday at the request of Algeria and Somalia regarding the same issue, and another session on Tuesday.

Kaag is also expected to brief Council members on the situation in the West Bank, where Israel has been carrying out its aggression since January 21, displacing tens of thousands from refugee camps in the northern governorates and coinciding with an escalation in settler violence and the demolition of Palestinian structures, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The session will also address the dangers of the resumption of Israel's large-scale aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, most of them children and women, as well as UN staff, including five from UNRWA.