Gaza|According to the resolution, Israel has already accepted Biden’s plan and Hamas is asked to accept it.
of the UN the Security Council has passed a resolution supporting the US President Joe Biden presented the Gaza ceasefire plan.
The resolution presented by the United States was approved by a vote of 14-0. Russia abstained from voting.
The resolution calls on the parties to the Gaza war to fulfill the ceasefire plan fully, without delay and unconditionally.
The resolution states that Israel has approved the plan and also asks the extremist organization Hamas to accept it.
“Today the Council sent a clear message to Hamas: Accept the proposal offered. Israel has already accepted it and the fighting would end today if Hamas does the same,” the US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said after the Security Council vote.
After the resolution was approved, Hamas described the result of the Security Council’s vote as “welcome”.
According to the Hamas press release, the organization is ready to cooperate with mediators and negotiate on the implementation methods of the plan.
Among other things, Hamas has demanded that the ceasefire agreement include clauses on a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of all Israeli troops from Gaza.
In the current truce proposal, Israel would withdraw its forces from Gaza’s population centers and Hamas would release hostages. The truce would initially last for six weeks. According to the proposal, the truce would continue as long as the negotiations continued.
Also the president of the Palestinians Mahmoud Abbas welcomed the resolution.
“The Palestinian president considers the resolution a step in the right direction to end the genocidal war against our people in the Gaza Strip,” Abbas’ office said in a statement.
of the United States foreign minister Antony Blinken met the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday.
Blinken, who is visiting the countries of the Middle East, is trying to get approval for the truce plan presented by Biden.
“If you want to ease the terrible suffering in Gaza, get all the hostages home, and create a path for Israelis and Palestinians to lasting peace, press Hamas to accept a ceasefire,” Blinken said. In the X message service After the UN resolution vote.
Earlier on Monday, Blinken visited Egypt, where he met with the country’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Blinken’s visit to the Middle East is the eighth since the war in Gaza began last fall.
Injured Palestinian children are carried on a stretcher outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in the central Gaza city of Deir Al-Balah on May 9 following an Israeli strike.
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