Russia is pushing for changes to a Brazilian draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would condemn Hamas for its attack on Israel and call for a humanitarian cease-fire after Moscow’s draft resolution failed in a vote over its failure to mention the militant group.
The Brazilian draft resolution, according to AP, calls for “humanitarian pauses” and “firmly condemns all violence and hostilities against civilians and all acts of terrorism.” But it also “unequivocally rejects and condemns the heinous terrorist attacks by Hamas,” which the Russian draft failed to mention.
Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union along with some other Western countries, launched a surprise attack on Israel that killed some 1,300 Israelis, the worst Jewish massacre since the World War II Nazi Holocaust.
Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on October 16 that Russia had proposed two amendments to the Brazilian draft resolution, which, according to him, would provide “balance” to the document.
One amendment would add a call “for an immediate, durable and fully respected humanitarian ceasefire” and the second would condemn “indiscriminate attacks against civilians as well as against civilian objects in the Gaza Strip depriving civilian population of means indispensable for their survival, in violation of international law,” the AP reported.
Russia had proposed its own draft resolution that condemned violence against civilians but made no mention of Hamas or its attack, but the UN Security Council rejected it in a vote on October 16.
Only four countries joined Russia in voting for its resolution — China, United Arab Emirates, Mozambique and Gabon — while four countries — the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Japan — voted against and the seven others abstained. At least nine of the 15 members of the…
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