there's homicides, kids, nothing's exclusions. anyone is the target, the state governor, since the government, the name has not given him details of the security plan for this region. and the residents are angry at they have not yet seen the army or police securing the city . the un security council is about to vote on another resolution calling for an immediate and lasting series fire in gaza. the don't know about this, and this is all just the life and don't have also counting up. the vote comes as a israel attacks targets across the strip. at least 22 palestinians have been killed in central garza and 32 in an attack on a house in the hospitals on the siege across the guys a strip at least 3 medical facilities around over time. bias ready for 6. israel

says on why age shots are no longer allowed into northern garza, the right agency for palestinian refugees calls it a death sentence. the after more than 5 months of war, tens of thousands of palestinians killed and many more injured. the united nations security council is once again set to vote in a draft resolution demanding an immediate and lasting sci fi and gaza. that votes is due to take place in the coming out and is just days off to the council failed to pass a us draft with a slightly different language, recognizing the need for a cease fire in gaza. new resolution is supported by russia and china, both of which vetoed the us dropped $22.00 out of nations have called them to cancel to adopt the measure. meanwhile, across the gaza strip that the more is where the air rates that have heads,

residential areas in that all bottom and striking of family home killed at least 22 people, 2 children and 5 women were among them. and in the southern city of an offer, an air strike kid account sheltering, displaced upon the standings. 3 major hospitals and gaza are under, seized by his very forces in the south, is where the forces of encircled nasir on a mile hospitals, on his increasing attacks on them in the north is where the forces have not a late fees to i'll shoot for hospital for an entire week, palestinians inside the vicinity of all she described see is rarely times running over dead bodies in the courtyard as well as crossing ambulance vehicles. other say they witnessed kennings to another the whole of all it and i've called la homeless child in the vicinity of all she said i was injured as a result. we don't know what's become of our neighboring families. we were tracked in our home, but we kept hearing their cries, we witness the execution of some fellow palestinian spies ready soldiers. these

were very horrifying moments here and the secretary general says there is a growing international consensus but a ceasefire is urgently needed in gaza. earlier on monday, he expressed hope for the security council vote. we have designed the security calls to a resolution in which sure as his fire is required to give this, but not in the linkage with the, the, the release, the unconditional release of all searches. and we have also always claims for the needs for that please. so i see a growing consensus, emerging international community to tell these valleys that the ceasefire is live. it's a jordan spot, a minister slammed israel's government as one led by what he called a radical racist menaces. speaking alongside the un chief,

he accused israel of acting with impunity. and m e n. an at the end of the day israel is doing what they're doing, perpetrating crimes simply because they have not deterred there is nothing to do to israel. we have gone beyond the is really government is laid by radical races, menaces. we cannot allow them to continue to drown the region into further chaos, rather than sending alms to israel. diplomacy must quote, delegations must visit as well to direct the coverage is way the government and they must be held liable for their crimes. for the drop, the resolution being put forward calls for an immediate and lasting humanitarian ceasefire in gaza. the cancels yet deposit any tact calling for the seas 55, draft resolutions i've so far failed. the us. israel's biggest ally, has used as visual powers 4 times. and just days ago, russia and china, vito, a u. s. reservation that stated that cx 5 is imperative. now we have several

correspondents covering the story for us. we're going to get the view from occupied east jerusalem with honda. so hold on topic i will assume is involved in southern gaza for a subject tonight to get it to a james base is here for us on the set. first, we're going to go to gabriel, alexander, whose life was from the united nations. so you were describing just just a few moments ago, gabriel, that even up to the last the seconds that are changes and negotiations going on about the draft of this resolution to yeah, that's right. i'm looking at a live picture right now. and another screen of a security council chambers. and there are certainly many diplomats, they're moving around. but you ask yourself, why haven't they begun this meeting yet? that was suppose to start about 5 minutes ago or so 10. and the reason is, is they are making last minute changes to the wording of this draft resolution. and this is what it is. they call the draft resolution proposed by the 10 or the

elected 10 members of the council demands an immediate cease fire for the month of ramadan, respected by all parties, leading to a lasting and sustainable ceasefire. now that word lasting was requested were being told by diplomatic sources by the united states. at the last minute, after negotiations went throughout the weekend. initially, this draft called for a permanent sustainable ceasefire. but the united states was a little uncomfortable with that and changed it to lasting or asked to change it to last thing. and this is what the negotiations were about. and this is why we see that the way it's also important to point out that this trapped resolution is very short, straight to the point of less than a page if you will. and it also the other key part. it is also emphasizes that urgent need to expand the flow of humanitarian assistance in a into the gaza strip for all the civilians it's so desperately needed. so bottom

line is we expect that this vote will happen probably within the next hour or so. we're being told by diplomatic sources, it's being delayed for about 1520 minutes until they can get this final version of this wording into a document that all council members can look at and then cast their vote on and i gave we were mentioning before the young secretary general, antonio botanist had said, and during a press conference that he felt there was a growing international consensus, but a ceasefire was urgently needed and goes on the you rides the united nations. are you getting any sense from the people that you are meeting and talking to there that that optimism may well be funded as well? certainly the security council certainly has a lot of divisions and we've been speaking about those divisions for months now and they go back years actually. but of course, when it comes to the issue of a cease fire and gaza, quite frankly, there are not a lot of divisions on the security council. the majority of council members have

voted over the past several months since this conflict began, particularly as the humanitarian situation has gotten even so worse in gaza that they support an immediate cease far. we've seen that in boats and in the council in recent weeks and months, really, the issue has been the veto power, particularly it's been the united states that has been the one that's been blocking any council measure that would demand an immediate cease fire. and that's certainly what we saw on friday when the us proposed their draft resolution that recognized the need for a ceasefire, but did not demand it. and that's why we saw a double veto by russia and china, but certainly the mood in the halls in the united nations with member states and outside the security council as well. is that a, an immediate cease? fire is not needed today. it's not needed tomorrow,

but it was needed yesterday and last week and last month. that is definitely the consensus. and i think that's why you're starting to see the us change their posture if you will, on the council. now potentially, potentially, we have to see how the vote, but potentially allowing distractors lucian, demanding an immediate cease fire to go through. perhaps us exchange, perhaps us votes for it. we don't know yet. we'll have to watch closely. but the fact that the us is even potentially entertaining this or asking for changes in this draft indicates that the us position could be changing and could be changing dramatically on the council there before. now thank you very much and do just want to give you a quick look at the the members of the security council gathering, they're waiting for presumably that draft a gave was talking about, containing that word. last thing to appear. one would imagine that they're gonna discuss that prior to having a vote on it. but on that i want to bring in our diplomatic editor james base james, you've covered so many of these things talk us through the kind of process that

we're talking on. my understanding is that they're drawn to the draft. first of all, this is the 1st time we've gotten this close to a draft being voted on with changes. just one word essentially being changed before it's actually voted on. i think it's good news that everyone has been engaging on this draft. the us didn't want to talk about this draft from the elected members of the security council, the ones that on permanent, the ones that don't, the 5 that always have a seat around the horseshoe table of the security council until their own resolution had been defeated. then they did engage on that, they added some language over the weekend, and in the last hour or so i was, as gave was mentioned, they wanted to get rid of the word permanent, from permanent sustainable c spa, the compromise language. i think last thing, sustainable c spa and that looks like language at the us is prepared to go with that language. that will pause because remember they're already off 10 members of the security council who was sponsoring this resolution. you only need 9 votes. so the only problem i think would then be if there was a veto,

and it looks like the us because they've managed to change some of the language on the going to be time. i think the delay probably is also to get the russia in china to get them to be happy with the slight one would change in the language. and also there's a technicality in the way it works with you. and once you've got a resolution, this actually is the latest resolution i've got with a new last thing would added. it needs to be translated into the 5 official languages of the united nation. so that work would be pretty quick. there's any one would change box. i am hearing some of the complication rob, which is, i don't think this necessarily affects how the us will vote. we still don't know how the us will vote on this resolution, but the fact that the engagements suggest to me they will either abstain or vote for it. but that's just my guess. but i'm hearing they'll be a 2nd vote. they'll be a 2nd vote because the us in addition, doesn't like it and it knows it would navigate through. doesn't like the fact that

this resolution, unlike it's one last week, does not condemn her mouse. so the us is going to propose an amendment to this reservation, which will be the 2nd votes, which of those add a power draw for a line condemning a mouse so it gets well here. more complicated, arguably, more exciting, but of course it's not about the drum or the security council this about the grim reality of facing the absolute like you know, the people of gaza and what happens if this is possible, you actually change it with that that's absolutely crucial. through everything, it all depends, everything that we've seen over the last 4 or 5 months. so in terms of what is happening at the un security council, it seems and pictures at the moment there appears to be some sort of huddled going on and talk us through the process of james. i mean, is this the kind of thing, the situation in which, for example, the draft itself would be handed out and this is what they're discussing or could it be to do with a, the us amendment that may well be able to be, may be about uh,

is uh, let me just tell you, you go to the lodge, how to live on. bassett, is that in the security council? and right in the middle, you have the multi zone boss of the she's one of the key figures in the e 10. and one of the key figures about the drafting this resolution and next to the russian ambassador. vacillating depends, yeah, they seem to be at the center of the discussion which everyone is taking part in. i can also see near the center now. so the next, the multi is on bass of the, is the post and you know about the, to the united nations re add and so, so this is often how it happens on big occasions, united nations. it remains very, very fluid until the last minute. and then negotiations that have taken place, some of them in, in rooms with that but, but it's the junior diplomat since then was on by. so this present to then last minute changes often done on the phone and whatsapp. remember these resolutions in negotiated in new york that then sent to that capital's the capital one type of say, i think that's what happened with that. and it was the guy said to do new york,

the us mission to the united nations, which is directly opposite. the united nations on 1st avenue in new york may have said yes to it, but they have to then send it to you a to washington. i'm washington had a problem with that was permanent and it came back and still the business is being done the on the security council chain, but i think looks like actually that drifting back to the seats. and i think in a moment japan is the current president of the security council. they will bring the meeting to order that i'm bassett, a and as i understand it, and even if we have a us amendment that, that will probably be presented 1st. but i think likely that will hear from the proponents of the resolution 1st as the site is 10 countries to put forward the resolution. and the way it works with the elected members of the security council, which are new block. i mean, we've always had elected members, but it didn't used to work together, and it's something relatively new in recent years, elected members have started working together as a blog, and they have

a coordinator every month. it just happens. mozambique is the coordinator, so we'll hear from the buyers on beek and basset to petro a phone. so who's very interesting character, just to tell you briefly, because he actually served on the security council of the 19 going to. so when you talk to him is very interesting on how the council has evolved as easy as a 70. so did it that many years ago, because at the time when super power rivalry was nothing like it is now. and now of course, every resolution like this one is infected by the constant rivalry between the western nations, russia and china. and that's of course, is a factor, a backdrop for every single resolution. like this one, me, james, of course, and stay with us while we were it. so this vote state base, we can see them. so i'm running around there, but they do, as you say, seem to have been spreading out. i want to go to, to a couple of assume who's involved in the southern guys and of course whatever the resolution is made or not made this afternoon is going to have a direct impact on the lives of people in gaza at tonic talk to us about how people

in gaza are reacting to yet another resolution calling for a cease fire and goals? are of the yes indeed it palestinians here are following the new sessions that's will be healed. in the united mentioned security council to pass a trusted resolution for an immediate cease fire agreement for an immediate cease fire that might take place like a top off palestinians. and fox are completely disappointed from previous failures that the united nations security council has really had that specifically in light of the repeated use of the us a, a b 2 games, different resolutions that were cooling for an immediate cease fire. one of the latest has been a veto it by showing that russia and o j are you in different sections that have been healed in the united nations security council part, palestinians in fox are to have

a window of hope in terms of passing this, a draft resolution is specifically that there is no grubbing prussia when the united states not to use b took this time against such resolution thoughts from the other side, the usability government as exact, think its political and diplomatic efforts in order to fluids, old negotiations efforts, an old diplomatic means that will stop the wait for a search for such a resolution that might be taken from which in the palestinian perspective might be really frustrating and might really stop the wave of the round of violence and confrontations. that might be extent. that wouldn't be coming days, but exactly what we have been hearing for palestinian is that they are looking for a resolution that might guarantee the end of this full in a very short period. and by using any kind of making sense and, and this is absolutely due to the fact that was thing has happened on the unrelenting development on destruction for more than 170 days to now. which absolutely does that take you to the majority of energies where people here are

waiting for only an announcement for an agreement that might be for the foreseeable future to be approach between come us. and he has been broken by because hod regional mediators type nice. thank you very much. indeed. target was in the, in a rough side, i'm going to bring you some news that we're getting out of is realize really media is reporting prime minister benjamin netanyahu was threatening to us by saying he will cancel appliance delegation to washington dc. if us does not veto this un security council draft resolution, when i go to honda, so who it is unoccupied, a service and what more do we know about the sound of the that's right is really media reporting of these really prime minister is seemingly unhappy with what's going on in the united nations this afternoon, that he's saying that if the united states does not exercise their veto power, he will not be sending a delegation to washington. now this delegation, you'll recall, was that the request of us president joe biden. so that is really officials could

brief their american counterparts on how exactly this ground invasion instead of fox is going to work along with how the evacuation of more than a 1000000 and a half palestinians is going to take place. the americans have been saying repeatedly that it would be a mistake and a red line to go into the alpha. and most recently, the us vice president campbell harris is said that she's not ruling out consequences. if israel does go into the fox saying that there was simply no place for these palestinians to go, that they were asked to go into that class at the request of these really. so this is another back and forth between the 10 yahoo and american officials in a seemingly relationship but is taking a downward type of turn it remember that the us secretary of state antony blinking was also just in israel. and netanyahu had said that he hopes to have us support for this ground invasion instead of. but if not,

israel will have to do it alone. so continue was back and forth on these disagreements publicly. i might add up between both american and is really officials. and this is, is the latest in a series of those disagreements with american officials. and i thank you very much indeed. hondas off with their force and also by the east jerusalem. let's go back to i just to navigate. is that a james base let's, let's talk about this because the re, the one of the key elements to this was how israel was going to respond. whether if it, particularly if the vote was actually supported in un security council, but already benjamin matching young coming out. say know if you, if the us does support this of a don't veto it. i'm going to pull and this plan's delegation in different logic terms, and we're just watching the huddle. they're going on possibly discussing the draft as he was saying, and develop a diplomatic terms. i've significant visit to pull the delegation. i think it is significant. remember, this delegation was going to washington to explain rough and israel's claim that

they could do this without significant civilian casualties. that huddle that is significant, it may well be discussing, well, probably as soon as he always said was suddenly important dynamics of this vote. because that you have the us on boss of the, to the united nations, into thomas greenfield. next to the french ambassador nicolo delivery at the british ambassador barbara would, would the president of the security council, the japanese on boss of the most he's on bus, is just joined in, is listening in these huddles are continuing, suggesting that things are fluid, they're all developments happening and i think they will, they little by now know the security council. in the old days you said have to send telegrams the capital to get instructions. now that rule on what saps with that precedence, the prime minister is, they'll know what prime minister netanyahu said, i'm sure they are discussing it, that in the room, it will, i think, be something that washington takes note to solve. and i think they'll be water is

what is that he'll do more water is the potentially he may decide because he said he's going to to rap or whatever the us says that maybe he will expedite that operation. i think that will be the, the biggest nightmare if the us supports, as we think it might to this resolution. well, that was, i say we're hearing that they will have that own amendment adding a, a paragraph condemning, hum us. that is interesting because i think from the votes on friday, on the us resolution that's had the power off on her mouse and they got enough folks for that resolution to a pause if it wasn't for china and russia vetoing it. so the order of things is you will have the vote on the amendment 1st and then the vote on the resolution all the with the amendment or not the amendment that does bigger question, if i think is likely that the amendment would pos and the mass paragraph will go in the resolution. how will china and russia vote that could we instead see of russia and chinese veto?

there's i think that's probably unlikely. button is already hot to cool. i haven't spoken to the chinese or russian. i'm foster, i'm not there in new york, and i don't think gabriel's had a chance. i don't think they were speaking. your point is today, when these things get very tense, they're not quite as talkative as they are to have the time i could imagine in the fire on the subject. let's just bring gabriel alexander after you. i'm in forest games. i understand. of course you've been sitting listen to everything that's been going on, you've not had to john's yet to go down to the the debate chamber itself. but what are you shipping? are you getting a sense of any further delays with regard to the amendment? the james was referring to as well. we are told by diplomatic sources that this was going to be delayed about 20 minutes or so, but that was 22 minutes ago. so clearly there are some changes here. and i think as you just heard from james, it could be because of what we're hearing out of israel. these comments from benjamin netanyahu, allegedly. and it looks like i'm looking now into the security council feed,

and it looks like they are convening. so it looks like we might have some action there in a few minutes. i can tell you, none of the investors wanted to speak much as they were going into the chambers council chamber just a few minutes ago before convening there. so it looks like it might be convenient here and okay, but i'm going to talk to you in there. uh, but let me get a box in there and just uh, let's listen to what's going on in the chain. the onset of that meeting, i should like to request over that division over the road, sharing for their ration. and on behalf of the members over the security council to ask that all those prayers are now stand and join the over the job being, i mean, the site is to pretty the present. it's condolences on sympathy to the government on people overall shopped on the in the memory or victims over the hangouts on the quarterly co restart terrace deck. at the close out the whole, the most go region that was shown for there is shown on the 22nd of march.

i now invite you to stand under was of, i mean the sign is fine . thank you. the pro vision, our agenda for this meeting is the situation intermediaries including the policy

and in question the andrea agenda is adopted. see i'll cool down so it's losers. how do 7 over the causes privilege or all moves of procedure? i invite that event that you presented to this of ease of on demand, to participate in this meeting. it is so decided i propose that the concert we invite the permanent to resolve over those of us state over proudest and to the united nations to participate in the meeting. he, i go down through the privilege of rules of procedure on the previous practice in disregard. there be no objection. it is so decided the security calling to we're now beginning conservation of item 2 over the agenda . members of the accounts it will have before them document is slash 2020 full

thrush. 200. 50 for the ethics of the draft reserves on submitted by august, syria, a quad or diana chipper monitor, mozambique republic of korea. saturday on sylvania, on the streets on the counselor is ready to proceed. proceed to the of the policy is ready to proceed to the vote on the director to georgia before i now give it up for a while to those members over the accounts who, who wish to make statements before the vote. i gave it up for want to that to present that people mozambique who said president, i have the $1.00 to $3.00 interviews to these is are off the resolution. on behalf of the 10 elected members or the security council,

namely the audio ecuador, diane is up on mold the republic of korea, sierra la, on slovenia, switzerland, and my own country, mozambique. we wish to commend the president said, oh, you're fun for convincing these meetings. in order to take action on these important resolution on the media least, including the probably seen me on the question. we express all of the prep is ition to all members of this council for the airports and the inputs on these draft resolution and attending the catastrophic situation in the guise us through this. i

present the situation, you guys that is a month of grave concern to the entire international community in the, the discoloration of the conflict in the gaza strip. and it's got us profit consequences, our clea, a threat to international peace and security in this context. the 10 felt compelled to table this draft resolution before the the 15 members of this council, individually and collectively have a monday at the end of the chapter to work for the month to lose all of international peace and security. and that they options even foster the entire international community. this is this to conviction that

the drafting of the text that we are going to see during this morning this close console has been consistently united images in its agreement on your big ition of the potters in the conflict to respect international law. including getting to nation of your money tied in the law and the international human rights of all. the 10 have always supported the call for an immediate cease fire and gaza as a fundamental step for these reasons. and in the respect for the, for the month of ramadan, we have proposed the present. the resolution doctor do mind is an immediate cease

fire during the sick god per your leading to put money.