NINE members of the United Nations security council on Monday condemned “indiscriminate” air strikes by Myanmar’s military against civilians.

The nine council members — the United States, Britain, France, Japan, Ecuador, Malta, South Korea, Slovenia and Switzerland — said that, three years after the military takeover, more than 18 million people need humanitarian aid and 2.6 million remain displaced.

The nine stood before reporters to support a statement, read by Britain’s UN ambassador Barbara Woodward, which urged Myanmar’s armed forces “to cease its attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure,” marking a sharp contrast to their silence on Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza.