Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad H. Mansour (L) speaks with his Saudi Arabian counterpart Abdullah Al-Mouallimi prior to an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, at the UN headquarters in New York, on July 28, 2014. The UN Security Council issued an urgent appeal to Israel and Hamas early Monday for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, where more than 1,030 Palestinians and 43 Israeli soldiers were killed over the past weeks. (Xinhua/Niu Xiaolei)