Nickolay Mladenov

US-Hamas channel has value, but only if terrorists disappear from Gaza’s future - editorial

Washington has found value in talking directly to Hamas, but those contacts will only serve Israel’s interests if they lead to disarmament, destroyed tunnels, and Hamas’s removal from Gaza’s future.

Gunmen stand guard at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.
President Isaac Herzog met with US Special Envoy Jared Kushner and Nikolay Mladenov, the Director-General of the US President Trump's Board of Peace, August 17, 2026.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a special plenum session in honor of US President Donald Trump at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, October 13, 2025

Trump hints at endorsing candidate in Israeli election, despite calling it best to 'stay out'

(L-R) Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio watch presentations during the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, in Washington, DC, February 19, 2026

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UNRWA, Trump to hold economic parleys on same day.

Palestinian employee of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) hold a sign during a protest against a US decision to cut aid, in Gaza City January 29, 2018. (REUTERS/Mohammed Salem)

World responds to latest round of fighting between Israel and Gaza

Around 300 rockets were fired into Israel over a 17 hour period, killing 1 and injuring 83 people.

Streaks of light are pictured as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, as seen from the Israeli side of the border March 25, 2019

Mladenov: “Extremism rising, risk of war looms large" in Gaza, West Bank

The Palestinians, who are the weaker people in the conflict, need international support more than ever, Mladenov said.

Palestinians hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest at the Israel-Gaza border fence, in the southern Gaza Strip February 15, 2019.

Mladenov slams settler violence after Israeli stabbed, Palestinian killed

“Israel must put an end to settler violence & bring those responsible to justice,” tweets UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov.

  Nickolay Mladenov: We are very much at the early stages of this [reconciliation] process, and there are too many things that can go wrong, and most of them probably will

U.N.'s Mladenov: Gaza war threat still high as northern border heats up

Leah Goldin responded sharply to Mladenov's comments shortly later, saying, "When I spoke with him and implored him to help bring my son's body back from Hamas, he was not willing to help me."

A Palestinian woman bathes her son with water from a tank, filled by a charity, inside their dwelling in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip

Hamas to U.N.: Support Palestinian right to bear arms against Israel

The UN, through its Middle East Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov, is working together with Egypt to reconcile Hamas and Fatah.

Palestinians celebrate the resignation of Israel's Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman as a woman holds a picture of Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh, in Gaza City November 14, 2018

U.N.'s Mladenov hints that Iran trying to spark Gaza war

“There are forces out there that want to disrupt that agreement and push us all into the abyss of a confrontation."

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov

Mladenov condemns Palestinian death allegedly caused by Jewish extremist

Israeli police and the Shin Bet are investigating the possibility that a Jewish extremist threw the stone.

NICKOLAY MLADENOV

UN official: Palestinian glorification of Fuld terror attack reprehensible

“Hamas leaders continued to incite violence, with one senior official speaking of “cleansing Palestine of the filth of Jews,” and threatening to decapitate Israeli leaders,” Mladenov reported.

NICKOLAY MLADENOV

Is key Gaza negotiator UN’s Nickolay Mladenov leaving his post?

During his three years at the UN Security Council, he maintained strong ties with both Israelis and Palestinians.

 UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nockolay Mladenov