THE UN Security Council, chaired by China, convened in New York as Egypt and Qatar sought to broker a short ceasefire to get fuel for Gaza’s only power plant into the Mediterranean enclave, two western diplomats told the Financial Times. Gaza’s 2m residents have been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since 2007, when Hamas won the elections.
It will run out of fuel by Monday at the latest, an Israeli official estimated. UN secretary-general António Guterres started the Security Council meeting by calling on both sides “to allow mediation efforts to intensify and succeed.” “Fighting must stop. It must stop. Rockets and mortars on one side, aerial bombardment on the other must stop,” he said.
The bombings have continued for a seventh day. Israel’s military said it had struck the homes of Hamas leader Yahyeh Sinwar and his brother.
The strike is complicating mediation efforts, an Egyptian diplomat briefed on
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