Hamas celebrated this Monday the approval by the United Nations Security Council of the resolution demanding a Immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demands that pressure be put on Israel to adhere to this measure. For his part, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has canceled the visit of two of his main advisors to Washington this week because the US has not used its veto right, but has abstained.

The UN Security Council has passed for the first time, and after four previous failed attemptsa resolution unequivocally calling for a ceasefire in the war in the Gaza Strip, where More than 32,200 people have already died. The resolution has been approved by 14 votes in favor and one abstention, that of the United States, and when approved it has elicited applause from the room, something that rarely happens, since until now it had vetoed all the resolutions presented in this regard.

Last Friday the UN Security Council voted on a resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Strip, presented for the first time by the US.after having vetoed resolutions in that direction three times, although this time it was vetoed by China and Russia due to the “ambiguous vocabulary” when they considered that the call for a ceasefire was not clear.

Hamas has welcomed the adoption of the resolution. “We welcome the UN Security Council’s call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. We emphasize the need to reach a permanent ceasefire that leads to the withdrawal of all Zionist forces and the return of the displaced“Hamas said, according to the newspaper ‘Filastin’.

“We call on the Security Council to pressure the occupation to adhere to the ceasefire and stop the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing against our people,” the Islamist movement has claimed. Likewise, Hamas has expressed its willingness to participate in an “immediate” process of exchanging “prisoners”, while underlining the need to establish freedom of movement in the Palestinian enclave for the correct delivery of humanitarian aid.

Finally, Hamas has thanked Algeria, which has promoted this latest resolutionfor their efforts, as well as the rest of the Security Council countries that have been working to “stop Zionist aggression and genocide.”

This is the first text to reach the consensus of the Security Council, after the three previous vetoes by the United States, which has abstained on this occasion, provoking the anger of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who has canceled the trip of a delegation of your government for this week.

Netanyahu cancels the trip of advisors to the US for not vetoing the UN resolution

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has canceled the visit of two of his top advisers to Washington this week because The US has not used its veto right, but has abstainedthis Monday in the UN Security Council, which approved for the first time a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

“The United States did not veto today the new text that calls for a ceasefire without the condition of releasing the kidnapped people. This is a clear setback from its constant position in the Security Council since the beginning of the war,” lamented the Office of the Prime Minister in a statement. The Office has indicated that Netanyahu made it clear last night to the United States that if he backed down from his “principled position,” he would not send the Israeli delegation to Washington, so he decided to cancel his trip.

National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer – from Netanyahu’s closest circle – were scheduled to travel to Washington this week at the request of the White House to hear US proposals to expand aid. humanitarian aid to Gaza and alternatives to a ground operation in Rafah.

The ground incursion into Rafah is one of the main points of friction between the US and Israelsince Netanyahu considers it essential to defeat the four Hamas battalions that remain there and win the war, while Joe Biden’s administration considers it a “red line” because 1.4 million displaced people, more than half of The Gazan population is in that city at the southern end of the enclave.