The United Nations Security Council will now vote on Wednesday on a Brazilian-drafted resolution that calls for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Hamas to allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip, Reuters reports.
The council is then expected to discuss – at the request of the United Arab Emirates and Russia – a Gaza hospital blast that killed hundreds of people on Tuesday, diplomats said.
Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour blamed Israeli forces for the “massacre” at the hospital, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The 15-member council had initially been due to vote Monday on the Brazilian draft, but it was postponed 24 hours to allow more time to negotiate.
At least 500 civilians, mainly women and children, were killed by Israeli airstrikes on the facility amid a relentless war by the regime in the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory’s health ministry said. The actual death toll could be far higher since, according to the ministry, “hundreds of victims are still under the rubble.”
The strikes came while thousands of civilians were seeking medical treatment and shelter at the hospital from incessant Israeli airstrikes.
The Zionist regime’s crime of brutally bombing the al-Ahli Baptist in Gaza shocked the world and filled the heart of every free person with pain and anger, the statement said, adding that the Israeli regime revealed its anti-human nature and disregard for all human rules and principles to everyone by committing this crime.
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