Arab Leaders Push US to Support Gaza Cease-Fire as UN Vote Nears
- Washington doesn’t support UN resolution, but could abstain
- Fighting continues in Gaza as Israel closes in on Khan Younis
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Arab leaders made a last-ditch effort to get the US on board with a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip hours before the United Nations Security Council planned to vote on the issue, as Israel pushed deeper into the south and alarm grew over a burgeoning humanitarian crisis.
“The US is not there yet, and that is why we are here — to engage with our US partners and to say it is in the interest of the region and in the interest of the US and in the interest of world peace for this aggression to stop,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman al Safadi said in a briefing.