The UN Security Council today approved a resolution presented by the United States in support of the truce proposal presented by President Joe Biden on May 31, which establishes a three-phase plan to end the war in Loop.
The resolution calls on Israel and Hamas “to fully implement its terms without delay and without conditions” and “to fully implement its terms without delay and without conditions.”
The resolution was approved by 14 votes in favor and the only abstention from Russia, and is already the fourth approved in the Security Council regarding the war in Gaza, although the previous ones have remained a dead letter when Israel refuses to stop the war. in the Palestinian territory, a war that has already claimed more than 37,000 lives.
The resolution approved on Monday underscores “the importance of ongoing diplomatic efforts by Egypt, Qatar and the United States aimed at reaching a comprehensive ceasefire agreement, consisting of three phases.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on his eighth trip to the Middle East since October 7 in pursuit of that goal.
Biden’s May 31 announcement of the new ceasefire proposal said it would begin with an initial six-month ceasefire with the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the populated areas of Gaza and the return of Palestinian civilians to all areas of the territory.
The first phase also requires the safe distribution of humanitarian aid “on a scale throughout the Gaza Strip,” which, according to Biden, would mean 600 trucks of aid entering Gaza daily.
In the second phase, the resolution says that, with the agreement of Israel and Hamas, there will be “a permanent cessation of hostilities, in exchange for the release of all other hostages still remaining in Gaza, and a complete withdrawal of the Israeli forces in Gaza.
The third phase would launch “a major multi-year plan for the reconstruction of Gaza and the return to their families of the remains of deceased hostages who still remain in Gaza.”
The final draft of the resolution “underlines” that the proposal says that if negotiations last more than six weeks for the first phase, “the ceasefire will continue as long as negotiations continue.” It welcomes “the willingness of the United States, Egypt and Qatar to work to ensure that negotiations continue until all agreements are reached and the second phase can begin.”
The resolution rejects any attempt to change the territory or demographics of Gaza, or to reduce its size, but deletes language that specifically mentioned reduction through the official or unofficial establishment of “so-called buffer zones.”
It reiterates the Security Council’s “unwavering commitment to realizing the vision of a negotiated two-State solution in which two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live together in peace within secure and recognized borders.”
And he underlines “the importance of unifying the Gaza Strip with the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority.” This is something that the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not accepted. Source: Infobae
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2024-06-11 15:50:31