New ceasefire plan in Gaza

On June 1, after ending the campaign in the Jabalia area in northern Gaza, the Israeli army advanced deeper into Rafah in southern Gaza. Analysts said that the above moves by Israel could "drench" hopes for peace prospects under Israel's new ceasefire plan just announced by US President Joe Biden and supported by world public opinion.

Israel continues to shell areas around the Gaza Strip.

Israel stresses conditions for ending conflict

Earlier, on May 31, US President Joe Biden announced that Israel had proposed a roadmap for a comprehensive ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of the hostages. The proposal includes three phases, starting with a “full and comprehensive” ceasefire lasting six weeks. During this period, Israeli forces would withdraw from Gaza and the hostages – including the elderly, women and wounded – would be exchanged for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Palestinian civilians would return to Gaza, including northern Gaza, and 600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid would enter the Palestinian territory every day.

In the second phase, Hamas and Israel will negotiate terms for a permanent end to hostilities. President Joe Biden said the ceasefire “will remain in place as long as negotiations continue.” The third phase will include a major reconstruction plan for Gaza.

Immediately after Washington announced the proposal, which is said to benefit both Israel and Palestine as well as the long-term security of the region, on June 1, European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron welcomed Israel's proposal, considering it an "important opportunity" to end the conflict. According to Reuters, speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto said Indonesia is ready to send peacekeeping troops to enforce a ceasefire in Gaza if requested.

The Hamas Islamist movement also issued a statement affirming its readiness to engage “positively and constructively” with any proposal based on a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.

However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office stressed that the conflict will only end when Israel achieves all its goals, including releasing all hostages and destroying Hamas' military capabilities and apparatus.

According to Euronews, while Israeli forces continue to carry out attacks on Rafah city in southern Gaza, Egyptian, US and Israeli officials are expected to meet in Cairo next week to discuss plans to reopen the Rafah border crossing.

Give Palestine more power in WHO

In another development, at the 77th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), countries voted unanimously to pass a draft resolution on granting more rights to Palestine in the World Health Organization (WHO), similar to the previous move of the United Nations General Assembly.

The draft resolution, put forward by a group of mainly Arab and Muslim countries, along with China, Nicaragua and Venezuela, calls for granting Palestine, which has observer status at the WHO, nearly all the same rights as full members. On the same day, the 77th WHA also adopted a resolution urging the WHO to act to address the growing health needs in the Gaza Strip. According to multiple sources, WHO member states voted overwhelmingly in favor of the draft resolution, which calls for a donor conference on health needs in the Palestinian territories, and also recommends more reports on the “dire” situation in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s “unprovoked destruction” of “health facilities.”

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Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/ke-hoach-ngung-ban-moi-o-gaza-post742602.html