This followed after Russia, circulated a draft that calls for an immediate, durable and fully respected humanitarian ceasefire in the war triggered by the October 7 Hamas attack from Gaza on southern Israel.
That draft calls for unimpeded humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, which had already been under a years-long Israeli blockade and is now under a full-blown siege, with basics like electricity and food supplies cut off.
But the United States is insisting that the council condemn the Hamas attacks as an act of terrorism.
The Israeli prime minister’s office says more than one thousand four hundred people have been killed in Israel since the attack by Hamas.
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