NEWS UPDATE: UN SECURITY COUNCIL IN TALKS OVER RESOLUTION OF ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
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Two drafts of a potential resolution to the conflict between Israel and Hamas were discussed by members of the UN Security Council on Sunday, according to diplomats.
A draft that Russia published on Friday demands “an immediate, durable, and fully respected humanitarian ceasefire” in the conflict that was started by Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel.
In that speech, “unimpeded” humanitarian relief is requested for the Gaza Strip, which has been under an Israeli embargo for years and is currently under a full-scale siege, with supplies of food and electricity cut off.
Without identifying Hamas, the Russian text, which AFP was able to view, “strongly condemns all violence and hostilities directed against civilians and all acts of terrorism.”
However, the United States is demanding that the council declare the Hamas attacks to be acts of terrorism, and a rival draft from Brazil does just that, according to diplomats.
Since the attack launched by Hamas militants last week, more than 1,400 people have died in Israel, according to the Israeli prime minister’s office; the number of deaths in Gaza from Israeli retaliatory attacks has risen to 2,450, according to the health ministry there.
According to Russia’s UN ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, some council members expressed a “positive” view of Moscow’s draft in a closed-door meeting on Friday.
Following suggestions for text revisions, Russia asked Brazil, the current chair of the council, to put the draft up for a vote on Monday.
Diplomats stated that no vote has been set as of yet.
A resolution must have nine votes out of the fifteen members of the body in order to be approved, and none of the five permanent members—the United States, Britain, China, France, and Russia—may veto it.
Given how frequently the Israeli-Palestinian conflict splits the council, diplomats said the negotiations were difficult.
The Brazilian text, or any other text from any member of the council, may theoretically be presented to a vote in the event that the Russian paper is rejected.
AFP
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