Algeria is working on a draft resolution at the UN to “stop the massacre in Rafah”
Algeria prepares draft UN Security Council resolution “to stop the massacre in Rafah”announced its ambassador on Tuesday following an emergency meeting of the Council behind closed doors.
“Algeria will circulate this afternoon a draft resolution on Rafah (…) It will be a short text, a clear text, to stop the massacre in Rafah”Amar Bendjama told the press.
Algiers had requested this emergency meeting of the Security Council on Monday, the day after a nighttime Israeli strike on a displaced persons camp in Rafah which killed 45 people and injured 249 others according to the Hamas health ministry. Since then, the civil defense of the Gaza Strip has announced the death of 21 people in another Israeli strike on a camp for displaced people in the south of the Palestinian territory.
The Algerian ambassador did not specify when he hoped to put the draft resolution to a vote. “We hope it can be done as quickly as possible because lives are at stake”commented the Chinese ambassador, Fu Cong, hoping for a vote this week.
“It is high time for this Council to act and adopt a new resolution”had pleaded for his part, before the start of the meeting, the French ambassador, Nicolas de Rivière, also putting forward a ” question of life or death “. The American ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said she would wait to see the resolution proposed by Algeria before commenting.