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Live: US urges UN Security Council to back Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan
The United States on Monday announced a draft Security Council resolution supporting the Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan outlined by Joe Biden last week, urging Hamas to accept it. But it appears that even within Israel there are major divisions over the plan it allegedly presented, with two senior ministers threatening to leave Netanyahu’s government if he signs off on the proposal. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
Issued on: 04/06/2024 – 05:06
Modified: 04/06/2024 – 07:24
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A ball of fire and black smoke rises moments after an Israeli air strike targeted a residential building in the city of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on June 3, 2024
A ball of fire and black smoke rises moments after an Israeli air strike targeted a residential building in the city of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on June 3, 2024. © Bashar Taleb, AFP
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The United States on Monday announced a draft Security Council resolution supporting the Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan outlined by Joe Biden last week, urging Hamas to accept it.
But even if Hamas agreed to terms, it would require Netanyahu to make some difficult political calculations. Two leading members of his far-right coalition – National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich – have threatened to leave Netanyahu’s government if he signs off on the proposal. That would cause the coalition to collapse.
Four more hostages kidnapped on October 7th were declared dead by the Israeli army on Monday. About 80 hostages in Gaza are believed to be alive, alongside the remains of 43 others.
Israeli authorities were battling intense forest fires Tuesday in the north of the country that broke out shortly after rocket and drone strikes from neighbouring Lebanon, forcing the partial evacuation of one town.
At least 36,479 Palestinians have been killed and 82,777 wounded in Israel’s war in Gaza, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, with about 120 remaining in Gaza, according to Israeli tallies. Many have been declared dead by Israeli authorities.
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Forest fires blaze in north Israel after rockets launched from Lebanon
Israeli authorities were battling intense forest fires Tuesday in the north of the country that broke out shortly after rocket and drone strikes from neighbouring Lebanon, forcing the partial evacuation of one town.
“Firefighting units, assisted by various entities, are working to extinguish the fires,” Israeli police said in a statement, adding that several homes in Kiryat Shmona had been evacuated.
An AFP photographer in the northeastern town saw intense blazes engulfing parts of the area bordering Lebanon, the scene of near-daily exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group on the sidelines of the war in Gaza.
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3 hours ago
Police arrest pro-Palestinian demonstrators inside San Francisco building housing Israeli Consulate
Police on Monday arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators for trespassing after they occupied the lobby of a San Francisco building that houses the Israeli Consulate.
Police zip-tied the hands of protesters, put them in police vans, and drove them away.
Officers arrested 69 people who refused to vacate the building, cited them, and released them from San Francisco County Jail, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement. Another demonstrator was cited and released at the scene for the same charge, it said.
The demonstrators entered the building and occupied the lobby for several hours. The protesters posted signs on the front doors calling for an end to the war in Gaza.
Police officers repeatedly ordered the demonstrators to leave before they moved in and started detaining people, the police department said.
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US urges UN Security Council to back Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan
The United States on Monday announced a draft Security Council resolution supporting the Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan outlined by Joe Biden last week, urging Israel and Hamas to accept it.
Biden outlined on Friday what he called an Israeli plan that in three phases would end the bloody conflict, free all hostages and lead to the reconstruction of the devastated Palestinian territory without Hamas in power.
However fissures between the two allies emerged when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office stressed that the ongoing war in Gaza would continue until all of Israel’s “goals are achieved,” including the destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities.
Israeli media have questioned to what extent Biden’s ceasefire speech and some crucial details were coordinated with Netanyahu’s team, including how long any truce would hold and how many captives would be freed and when.
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Yesterday’s key developments:
Forced displacement has pushed more than a million people away from the Gazan city of Rafah, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Monday. US President Joe Biden told Qatar’s emir Monday that Hamas was the only obstacle to a Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel, and urged him to press the militant group to accept it, the White House said.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu views a plan for a hostage release deal in Gaza presented by Biden as a “partial” outline, a government spokesman said Monday.
The Israeli army on Monday announced the deaths of four hostages in the Gaza Strip.
Some 55% of all structures in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed or possibly damaged since war erupted eight months ago, according to a preliminary satellite analysis by the UN.
About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)
