Kicking off the UN Security Council hearing, Russia has requested an oral amendment to the resolution introduced by Malta.
The amendment calls for “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce, leading to a cessation of hostilities”.
The current resolution only calls for “extended humanitarian pauses”. The US has previously opposed calling for an outright ceasefire.
“This is the lowest common denominator,” Russian ambassador to the UN Vasily Alekseyevich Nebenzya said, citing the “monstrous humanitarian situation” in Gaza and Israeli storming of al-Shifa Hospital.
Source: AlJazeera
