Security Council running out of patience with Gaza ceasefire: Slovenia

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Israel continues to attack the Palestinian territory of Gaza. About 41,000 Palestinians have been killed so far in this attack, which has been going on for about 11 months. Because of this barbaric aggression, the anger against Israel is growing around the world.

Despite repeated claims that a ceasefire was imminent, nothing has happened so far. In such a situation, the current president of the organization, Slovenia, commented that the patience of the member countries of the Security Council is running out with the cease-fire in Gaza.

The country has even said that the Security Council will consider taking action if there is no mediation between Hamas and Israel. Reuters reported this information in a report on Wednesday (September 4).

According to the report, Slovenia is serving as the president of the United Nations Security Council this September. Patience among Security Council members is running out and the 15-member council is likely to consider taking action itself if there is no immediate mediation and ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian independence group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Slovenia's UN envoy said on Tuesday.

Slovenia's ambassador to the UN, Samuel Zbogar, also said, 'There is growing concern within the Security Council that the organization will have to go one way or the other. Either there will be a ceasefire, and if not, the Council will think about what else we can do to implement the ceasefire.'

"I'm pretty sure that by September the Security Council will have to go one of two ways... It's not that we want to (do it), we have to take action because I think patience has run out," he told reporters.

Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked on Tuesday how the warring parties could only agree to a military pause in their fighting without a full ceasefire to allow 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza to be vaccinated against polio.

His spokesman Stephen Dujarric said, 'If warring parties can act to protect children from this deadly virus ... then surely they can and should act to protect children and all innocent people from the horrors of war.'

However, US President Joe Biden said last Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

Meanwhile, when asked what measures the Security Council could take if last June's resolution on a ceasefire is not implemented soon, Jabogar said: "There are many ways and tools that are under the control and mastery of the Council."

"But to start something like that, I think we have to move on from (resolution) 2735 because the council has been waiting for the implementation of that resolution for the last three months," he added.

However, after last week's Security Council meeting on Gaza, there was a heated exchange between Russia and the US over efforts to end the war.