UN envoy: Step back from the brink

The UN envoy to the Middle East urged calm on Friday in the wake of the escalation in Gaza.

“Everyone in Gaza needs to step back from the brink. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Right NOW!” the envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, wrote on Twitter.

“Those who want to provoke Palestinians and Israelis into another war must not succeed,” he added.

(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)