UN Security Council Working on Resolution to End Gaza Fighting

U.N. diplomats say the United States and European nations are working on a Security Council resolution to end fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. A two-page document circulated Thursday calls for an immediate end to Hamas rocket attacks and Israeli military operations that have killed over 2,050 Palestinians and 67 Israelis in the past six weeks. The document also calls for lifting the long-standing Israeli blockade of Gaza, opening all border crossings into the...

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