UN Security Council backs ceasefire plan between Israel and Hamas

After several failed attempts, the plan was presented by the President of the United States Joe Biden on May 31 Negotiations between Israel and HamasThe Plastino terrorist group, which involved Egypt and Qatar.

The plan includes the three Stooges. The first would mean a complete ceasefire for six weeks, with Israeli military forces leaving the most densely populated areas where they have conducted military operations in response to Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7. In that phase, Hamas will release all women, minors, the elderly and the wounded held hostage. For its part, Gaza residents can return to their homes and the cessation of hostilities will be used to maximize the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip.

In the second phase, the ceasefire will continue as long as both sides engage in good faith negotiations to achieve three objectives: a definitive cessation of hostilities, the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and the return of all hostages and the corpses of those who have died in captivity.

The third phase will be devoted to rebuilding the Palestinian territory and taking steps to move towards a solution Two states The vast majority of the international community defends it.

This text has the almost unanimous support of the Security Council. Fourteen of its fifteen members voted in favor and only against Russia remained absent. Its ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzya, protested that the US delegation was not transparent about its offer: “They are selling us something blindly,” he said.

Israel doubts compliance with resolution

“This agreement has been elusive. Why? Because Hamas has refused to accept any agreement. But there is another opportunity,” said US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who highlighted that the proposal is “virtually identical to Hamas’ own proposal.”

The terrorist group’s response to the US proposal has initially been positive. Hamas said in a statement, “We reaffirm our willingness to work with our brothers, the negotiators, to find out indirectly how to implement these principles that match the demands of our people and the resistance.”

Israel has, for the time being, maintained Ambiguous situation On his support for the resolution. On the one hand, he has said he “authorized” the US plan, but at the same time, his prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and some members of his government have criticized some elements of the resolution and defended Israel’s continued military operations “until we destroy Hamas.”

The vote in the Security Council will mean a new measure of pressure on both Israel and Hamas to accept the resolution and achieve a ceasefire, as the UN body has for months shown signs of ineffectiveness and blockade amid a veto by the two other permanent members, Russia and China.

The agreement at the United Nations came on the same day that US diplomacy chief Antony Blinken met Netanyahu in Jerusalem and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo. “My message to the governments of the region is: if you want a ceasefire, put pressure on Hamas to accept it,” he told reporters from the Egyptian capital.