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UN Security Council to vote on latest ceasefire resolution
The latest resolution is being introduced by Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Somalia.
A draft of the resolution, attained by Al Jazeera, points to UN findings that famine is occurring in Gaza City and is expected to expand to Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of September. It also comes amid Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza City.
The draft resolution:
- Calls for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent” ceasefire.
- Calls for the “immediate, dignified and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups”.
- Demands that Israel “immediately and unconditionally lifts all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and ensures its safe and unhindered distribution” of aid “in line with international humanitarian law and the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence”.
- Requests the secretary-general to report to the Security Council, within 30 days, regarding the implementation of this resolution.
The US, a permanent member of the Security Council, has regularly vetoed past ceasefire resolutions.
New UNSC draft resolution comes as famine and genocide officially declared in Gaza
The latest UN Security Council resolution is being drawn up by the non-permanent members of the security council.
They keep putting resolutions through because they want to show their frustration that they sit on this body … that is supposed to be the ultimate authority of international peace and security, and yet they cannot change things on the ground.
They want to highlight the fact that they are being blocked by one of the permanent members of the security council, the United States. The 10 elected members have been working on a resolution since the beginning of August – since Israel talked about its operation in Gaza City.
The reason they are pushing it through right now is because we’ve now seen the operation taking place in Gaza City, we’ve seen the expansion of that operation, and other things since the last resolution that was vetoed by the US back on June 4.
We’ve seen the report by the IPC that there is famine in Gaza. We’ve seen a few days ago an independent commission of inquiry of the UN conclude that genocide is taking place in Gaza.
Even so, it is pretty certain the US is going to veto, and it would be the sixth veto by the US since the start of the war in October 2023.
