To pass, the resolution needs at least nine votes in favor from the 15-seat council and no veto by the US, France, Britain, Russia or China.
Palestinians gather to receive food as Gaza residents face crisis levels of hunger, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 19.A Palestinian woman fleeing Al Shifa hospital following an Israeli raid, carries her triplet children as she moves southward, on March 21.Palestinian medics transport the body of a man killed in an earlier Israeli raid at the Nur Shams refugee camp to a hospital in nearby Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on March 21.
Mr Nate Evans, spokesman for the US mission to the UN, said on March 21 that the resolution resulted from “many rounds of consultations” with members of the 15-seat Security Council. The draft resolution, seen by Reuters, says an “immediate and sustained ceasefire” lasting roughly six weeks would protect civilians and allow for the delivery of humanitarian assistance.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on March 21 that he believed talks in Qatar, which are focused on a six-week truce and the release of 40 Israeli hostages and hundreds of jailed Palestinians,The main sticking point has been that Hamas says it will release hostages only as part of a deal that would end the war, while Israel says it will discuss only a temporary pause.
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