(L-R) Ziad Abu-Amr, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, and Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour listen during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, at UN headquarters in New York City on April 18, 2024. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday painted a dark picture of the situation in the Middle East, warning that spiraling tensions over the war in Gaza and Iran's attack on Israel could devolve into a "full-scale regional conflict." (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)