Israel-Hamas: UN Security Council votes on new Gaza ceasefire resolution | LIVE

The United Nations (UN) Security Council is expected to vote on Monday on a proposal for Israel and Hamas to allow aid access to the Gaza Strip — via land, sea and air routes — and set up UN monitoring of the humanitarian assistance delivered. Diplomats said the fate of the draft Security Council resolution hinges on final negotiations between Israel ally and council veto power, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates, which has drafted the text. UN officials and aid agencies warn of a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza — mass starvation and disease — with the majority of the coastal Palestinian enclave’s 2.3 million people driven from their homes during the two-month-long conflict. A council resolution needs at least nine votes in favour and no vetoes by the U.S., France, China, Britain, or Russia. Earlier this month, Washington vetoed a resolution in the 15-member council that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militants