United Nations: Kuwait intends to circulate a draft UN resolution to protect Palestinian civilians, its ambassador to the United Nations said Tuesday, following the deadliest day of violence in the Gaza Strip since 2014.
Mansour al-Otaibi said the draft would be circulated “most probably tomorrow” and would be designed to protect the Palestinians and “provide international protection for civilians.”
He spoke moments before the UN Security Council opened an emergency meeting to discuss the violence, which left 60 Palestinians dead, with a moment of silence.
“This cycle of violence in Gaza needs to end,” said Nickolay Mladenov, the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process.
“For if it does not, it will explode and drag everyone in the region into another deadly confrontation,” he told the Council by video link from Jerusalem.
Agence France-Presse