The Biden administration has marked a significant shift in its rhetoric towards Israel by drafting a new United Nations resolution calling for an „immediate cease-fire“ and hostage deal in Gaza and upping the pressure on the Jewish state to halt its onslaught on the Palestinian territory.
The Biden administration has marked a significant shift in its rhetoric towards Israel by drafting a new United Nations resolution calling for an “immediate cease-fire” and hostage deal in Gaza and upping the pressure on the Jewish state to halt its onslaught on the Palestinian territory.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented the resolution calling for “an immediate cease-fire.”
“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 cease-fire tied to the release of hostages, and we hope very much that countries will support that,” Mr. Blinken said.
The U.S. had been resistant to seeking an immediate halt to the fighting, rejecting three prior U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for a humanitarian cease-fire.
