2024-03-21 21:33:00
A period of six weeks is requested to protect civilians and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid. The proposal must be examined this Friday at the UN Security Council.
The United States will submit a draft resolution to the UN Security Council on Friday morning calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of all Israeli hostages still held by Palestinian Hamas, an American spokesperson announced Thursday. It is written in the latest version of the draft resolution, consulted by Reuters, that a “immediate and lasting ceasefire” of approximately six weeks would protect civilians and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave, besieged for more than five months by the Israeli army in response to the Hamas attack.
The text “unequivocally supports ongoing international diplomatic efforts aimed at achieving a ceasefire” in exchange for the release of the last Israeli hostages in the hands of Palestinian groups, it is written, in reference to the talks led by Qatar, Egypt and the United States.
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Washington, which has a habit of protecting security Council its ally Israel, has opposed three draft resolutions since the start of the war in Gaza, including two calling for an immediate ceasefire, saying it believes that these texts could harm diplomatic efforts intended to obtain the release of the hostages. In the eyes of the United States, any draft resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza must also call for the release of hostages held in the enclave by Hamas. Symbol of a less intransigent position, the United States abstained in two votes in the Security Council on texts requesting increased humanitarian aid flows for Gaza and calling for prolonged pauses in the fighting.
The Security Council will decide Friday morning on the draft resolution of the United States drawn up after “numerous rounds of consultations” with the members of the Council, said Nate Evans, spokesperson for the American mission to the United Nations.
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