Algeria submits draft UN Security Council resolution calling for stopping Israeli aggression against Rafah

Algeria has submitted a draft UN Security Council resolution callinf for immediatly stopping the Israeli aggression in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, as Israel intensifies its attacks in this densely populated area.

According to WAFA News Agency, “Algeria will circulate this afternoon a draft resolution on Rafah. It will be a short text, a decisive text, to stop the killing in Rafah,” Algeria’s Ambassador to the UN Amar Bendjama told reporters following a Security Council meeting.

The draft resolution calls on Israel to “immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in Rafah.”

It demands an immediate cease-fire respected by all parties and the “immediate and unconditional” release of all hostages.

The US has vetoed three previous UN Security Council resolutions calling for a cease-fire in Gaza since Oct. 7 and called the March 25 cease-fire resolution, which was adopted with the US abstaining, “non-binding.”

Algeria’s move comes after least 45 people were killed, mostly women and children, and nearly 250 injured in an Israeli masscare that targeted displaced persons in a camp in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday.

Hamda Mustafa