
THE United States urged the United Nations security council on Monday to support the three-phase plan announced by President Joe Biden aimed at ending the nearly eight-month-long Israeli invasion of Gaza.
US ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that her country has circulated a draft resolution to the 14 other council members to back the proposal.
Israel’s invasion, which followed a Hamas surprise attack on it on October 7, has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians in Gaza – mostly women and children.

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