The UN Security Council will meet this Monday at 11:00 p.m. (Portuguese continental time) to decide on the conflict between Israel and Hamas and discuss two competing draft resolutions.
On the sixth day, Russia distributed to the Member States of the Council a draft resolution that will be put to a vote and that calls for an “immediate, lasting and fully respected humanitarian cease-fire” and a “sem entraves” humanitarian access to the Strip from Gaza.
Brazil, which presides over the Council this month, will also present a text condemning “Hamas’ hateful terrorist attacks,” according to diplomatic sources.
The text proposed by Moscow “strongly condemns all violence and hostility against civilians and all acts of terrorism.”
However, at least in the version that circulated until Sunday, the draft resolution does not name Hamas, while the United States insists that the Security Council clearly condemn the “atrocious terrorist acts” of the Palestinian Islamist movement that launched an attack on October 7 against an unprecedented scale against Israel.
To be adopted, a resolution requires the approval of at least nine of the Council’s 15 members, without any veto from one of the five permanent members (United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China).
Source: TSF
