"US opposition hasn't stopped United Nations Security Council members from holding closed-door talks in New York about the possibility of sending a UN force to protect Palestinians in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza.
A Monday meeting on a draft resolution for such a force submitted by Kuwait ended without any conclusions. The UNSC is expected to resume talks on the Kuwait draft during its closed-door session Wednesday on the Middle East, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The draft text 'calls for measures to be taken to guarantee the safety and protection of the Palestinian civilian population in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in the Gaza Strip, including, inter alia, through the dispatch of an international protection mission.'
The United States, which is one of five permanent UNSC members with veto power, is expected to block any vote on such a text. European members of the UNSC are also likely to oppose the resolution in its current form...
Should Kuwait fail in its UNSC drive, the PA is likely to turn to the General Assembly on the issue..."