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CEASEFIRE VOTE. Israeli military armored vehicles roll in an area bordering the Gaza Strip during the weekend amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group.The United States announced Sunday it has requested a UN Security Council vote on its draft resolution backing a plan for an ‘immediate ceasefire with the release of hostages’ between Israel and Hamas.
A staunch ally of Israel, the United States has been widely criticized for having blocked several earlier UN draft resolutions calling for a halt to the fighting. The Israeli military said the extraction team and the four rescued captives came under heavy gun and grenade fire by militants, who killed one police officer, while Israel’s air force launched strikes that reduced nearby buildings to rubble.
Gantz’s decision, which will not bring down the right-wing government, comes after he had issued an ultimatum to Netanyahu to present a post-war plan for Gaza by June 8. European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell welcomed the hostage release and said reports “of another massacre of civilians are appalling… the bloodbath must end immediately.”
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