US puts forward resolution at the United Nations calling for Gaza ceasefire

The move comes as Israeli Prime Minister threatens to launch a large scale ground defensive on the city of Rafah.

The Security Council had already adopted two resolutions on the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza, but none calling for a cease-fire.

The U.S. draft would express “deep concern about the threat of conflict-induced famine and epidemics presently facing the civilian population in Gaza as well as the number of undernourished people, and also that hunger in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels.”

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