As the holder of the UN Security Council’s rotational presidency, Brazil has called for a council meeting to tackle the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, as revealed by its foreign affairs ministry on Wednesday.
The scheduled meeting is set to take place this coming Friday.
Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Mauro Vieira has interrupted an Asia trip to travel ‘to New York to participate in a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, called by Brazil to address the situation in the Gaza Strip,’ the ministry said in a statement.
Brazil summoned an emergency session of the Security Council on the Sunday following Hamas’s unexpected assault on Israel.
Israeli authorities report that the recent campaign claimed the lives of 1,200 individuals, the vast majority of whom were civilians, making it the most devastating incident in the nation’s history.
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In response to Israel’s bombardment of Hamas targets in the crowded Gaza Strip, a region with 2.3 million residents, the death toll has now climbed to 1,200 individuals, with a substantial number of civilians among them, according to Palestinian authorities.
According to the United Nations, the displacement of over 338,000 people has occurred in the enclave.
At the Security Council meeting held on Sunday, members were in disagreement over their policy stance on Israel and the Palestinians.
On Wednesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged for swift international measures to ensure the safety of both Palestinian and Israeli civilians, particularly children.
‘Children must never be held hostage, anywhere in the world,’ Lula wrote on social media platform X.
‘Hamas needs to free the Israeli children who were kidnapped from their families. Israel needs to stop its bombing so Palestinian children and their mothers can leave the Gaza Strip via the Egyptian border.’
‘There needs to be a minimum of humanity in the insanity of war,’ he said