With or without US assistance, Israel will lead the assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
The US resolution on an “immediate”
ceasefire
was rejected at the UN Security Council.
Another text will be put to the vote on Saturday.
Le Figaro
takes stock of the war between Israel and Hamas this Friday March 22.
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UN Security Council votes on Saturday on call for “immediate ceasefire”
After the veto of an American resolution mentioning a ceasefire in Gaza, the UN Security Council will decide on Saturday on a draft text clearly calling for this immediate ceasefire, it was announced. learned Friday from diplomatic sources.
The vote on this text prepared by several non-permanent members of the Council will take place at 10 a.m., these sources told AFP.
Hamas welcomes China and Russia's vetoes of US draft resolution
Hamas on Friday welcomed the vetoes by China and Russia of the American draft resolution presented to the United Nations Security Council on a truce in the war between Israel and the Palestinian movement in the Gaza Strip.
“We express our appreciation for the position of Russia, China and Algeria who rejected the biased American resolution
,” indicates the Islamist movement in a press release, denouncing in particular the
“misleading formulation”
of this text.
Ceasefire in Gaza: Russian and Chinese vetoes at the UN Security Council
Russia and China have vetoed an American resolution at the UN stressing the
“need” for an
“immediate”
ceasefire
in Gaza, with the Russian ambassador denouncing a
“hypocritical”
text which does not call for not directly to silence the guns.
The American draft resolution, which insists on the
“need for an immediate and lasting ceasefire”
in connection with the release of the hostages, received 11 votes in favor, three votes against (Russia, China and Algeria) and one abstention (Guyana).
Israel will carry out an offensive in Rafah, even without US support
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this Friday that Israel intends to carry out an offensive in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, even if the United States does not support it. .
“I said that we did not have the possibility of defeating Hamas without entering Rafah and without eliminating the battalions that remain there.
I told him that I hope to do it with the support of the United States, but if necessary, we will do it alone
,” he said in a statement after his meeting in Tel Aviv with the official. American.
Discussions between representatives of the United States, Qatar and Egypt continue
Discussions on a truce continued in Doha between representatives of the United States, Qatar and Egypt.
The head of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, David Barnea, was to meet this Friday with CIA Director William Burns, as well as Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdelrahman Al-Thani and the head of the Egyptian intelligence service, Abbas Kamel.
After demanding a definitive ceasefire, Hamas changed its position last week by accepting the principle of a six-week pause in the fighting.
But disputes seem to persist over the exchange of Israeli hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners imprisoned in Israel.
The clashes continue
While diplomats are busy, clashes continue across the Palestinian territory, notably in and around al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the territory, where the Israeli army claimed Friday to have killed more than 150 fighters Palestinians and arrested hundreds of suspects since the start of the week.
This large-scale operation launched on Monday against this hospital complex pushed hundreds of civilians to flee.