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What happened in the last few hours

These are the most relevant news stories about the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza at 8:00pm on Monday, March 25:

The UN Security Council approves the first ceasefire resolution in Gaza in six months of war. After Russia and China on Friday vetoed the draft ceasefire resolution related to the release of the hostages that the United States presented after a month of negotiations, no one expected anything of immediate response to the fiasco by part of the non-UN member states. Permanent members of the Security Council: elected, without veto power. But on the same Friday, after the failure of the US resolution proposal, which linked the ongoing ceasefire to the release of all hostages in the hands of Hamas, seven non-permanent members joined, and were soon joined by the other three (Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, South Korea and Sierra Leone responded). and Slovenia and Switzerland) with their own proposal: a ceasefire resolution during the month of Ramadan, which was approved on Monday unanimously, thanks to a UN abstention. States, by the fourteen members of the Council.

The Israeli Defense Minister confirms that his country does not have the “moral right” to stop the war as long as there are hostages. Israel has “no moral right to stop the war while there are still hostages” in the Palestinian enclave, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said on Monday, following the issuance of a UN Security Council resolution calling for the first time for a ceasefire in Gaza. After meeting with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the White House, Gallant stressed that Israel will continue to act against Hamas “everywhere, including those we have not gone to.”

Guterres praises the ceasefire decision in Gaza and stresses that it “will not be forgiven” if it is not implemented. UN Secretary-General António Guterres praised the approval of the Security Council resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, and stated that “failure to implement it will be unforgivable.” In his account on the X website and from Jordan, where he is touring the Arab countries, Guterres indicated that this decision “was expected for a long time,” and for this reason he requested its implementation.

Netanyahu cancels the visit of an Israeli delegation to the United States after the Security Council resolution. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made good on his threat “made before the vote in the UN Security Council” and on Monday canceled the visit of two of his closest advisers to Washington due to the US abstention in the vote that allowed approval. The first ceasefire decision in Gaza in six months of war. The Israeli response was not unanimous. The second man in the Israeli war government, Benny Gantz, criticized the Prime Minister’s decision through his account on X. For its part, the US State Department considered the matter “surprising and unfortunate.”

Trump calls on Israel to “end its war” in Gaza. Former US President and Republican presidential candidate in November, Donald Trump, said that Israel must “end” its war in Gaza. In an interview with the newspaper “Israel Hayom”, which is close to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, published on Monday, Trump stated that although the Hamas attacks on October 7 were “one of the saddest things he has ever witnessed,” you must end your war. To Israel. “You have to finish it, you have to do this.”

Israel says it will stop working with the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza. Israel announced that it will stop working with the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, according to Israeli government spokesman David Mincer, who accused the agency of perpetuating the conflict. “UNRWA is part of the problem, and now we will stop working with them. We are actively working to cancel cooperation with the agency because it perpetuates the conflict rather than trying to mitigate it,” said agency spokesman Mincer.

The UN report concludes that there are “reasonable grounds” to define Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide. The report of the UN Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, which will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday the 26th, concludes that there are “reasonable grounds” to conclude that Israel is committing deliberate genocide in the Gaza Strip. Albanese herself admitted in January in an interview with El Pais that this was the most likely conclusion of the report.

Israel accuses Pedro Sanchez of “rewarding terrorism” for announcing his recognition of the Palestinian state. Israeli diplomacy considers the words of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who confirmed at the end of last week that Spain will recognize the Palestinian state – along with the announcement with Ireland, Malta and Slovenia that it will work in this direction – “a reward.” “For terrorism,” the Foreign Ministry said on Monday, “Recognizing the Palestinian state after the October 7 massacre sends a message to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations that deadly terrorist attacks against Israelis will be responded to with political gestures toward the Palestinians.” Israel’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.