At the request of Russia and the United Arab Emirates, the UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday after a deadly shooting at a hospital in Gaza and will decide just before on a resolution carried by Brazil to try to find a common position on the war between Israel and Hamas.
“Russia and the United Arab Emirates requested an urgent public meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the morning of October 18 due to the strike on a hospital in Gaza,” the ambassador said on Telegram Russian deputy to the UN, Dmitri Polianskiï.
This meeting will take place on Wednesday at 10 a.m., according to the UN.
As US President Joe Biden left for Israel on Tuesday evening, diplomatic sources at the UN indicated that a resolution presented by Brazil, president of the Security Council in October, would be submitted to votes by the 15 member states of the Tip just before 10 a.m. Wednesday.
In full diplomatic activity on the war between Israel and Hamas, the Security Council rejected Monday evening a resolution proposed by Russia for a “humanitarian ceasefire” and was supposed to decide immediately on a second text presented by Brazil.
Diplomats had mentioned the date of this Tuesday 6 p.m. for the Council to adopt or not the Brazilian text.
The Russian resolution rejected Monday called for an “immediate, lasting and fully respected humanitarian ceasefire” and “unhindered” humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip under siege. But without naming the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which was unacceptable for the United States, the United Kingdom and France.
Brazil’s draft resolution specifically condemns “the heinous terrorist attacks of Hamas.”
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