The United States urges the UN to support the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas proposed by Joe Biden. But Benjamin Netanyahu considers the project “incomplete”.
The plan proposed by the American president would end 8 months of deadly conflict in the Gaza Strip, allow the release of all hostages and lead to a considerable increase in humanitarian aid in the Palestinian enclave.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the United States had sent a draft resolution to the other 14 council members, which includes a “total ceasefire” the first six weeks. A means according to her to reiterate the Council’s commitment to a two-state solution as well as the importance of unifying the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority.
Hamas said it viewed the project “positive”. On the side of the Hebrew State, Benjamin Netanyahu judges him “incomplete”.
The Israeli Prime Minister is put under pressure by the extremist fringe of his government. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich threatened to leave the government if Joe Biden’s proposal was accepted.
But if this is rejected, Benjamin Netanyahu risks worsening Israel’s isolation on the international scene and will be criticized by the opposition and a growing part of the population for abandoning the hostages in favor of protecting his country. own position.
In the Gaza Strip, the human toll has exceeded the 36,000 death mark according to the Gaza Health Ministry run by Hamas. Thousands of people are also left without shelter or protection after the IDF incursion into Rafah.
The United Nations has even warned of a famine “generalized” while humanitarian aid struggles to reach Gazans.
They also judge “inconceivable” the number of Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager on June 1 and seriously injured another near the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, near from the city of Jericho, adding that the second youth died the following day.
Palestinian authorities estimate that 522 people have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers or settlers since the start of the war.