The US will bring a UN security council resolution to a vote on Friday calling for an immediate six-week ceasefire in Gaza as part of a hostage deal, as international pressure grows for Israel to rein in its offensive.
The resolution, on which US officials have been working for several weeks, also warns against Israeli plans for an offensive in Rafah, the southern Gazan town where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled in search of sanctuary from Israel’s operations in the north.
The vote on the resolution, which coincides with the latest trip to Israel by US secretary of state Antony Blinken, comes as the US has grown increasingly frustrated with the way Israel’s government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, has conducted the war.
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