US has submitted new draft resolution to UN calling for immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza
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In Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the United States has submitted a new draft proposal for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
"We’re pressing for an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages. That would bring immediate relief to so many people who are suffering in Gaza – the children, the women, the men. It would allow a much greater expansion of humanitarian assistance getting to them, and it could create the conditions to have a lasting, enduring ceasefire, which is also what we want to see. So that’s the urgency in this moment. That’s what we’re pressing, with Qatar and Egypt working closely with us to try to get an agreement," Blinken told Al Hadath.
Blinken added: "We actually have a resolution that we put forward right now that’s before the United Nations Security Council that does call for an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages, and we hope very much that countries will support that. I think that would send a strong message, a strong signal."