UN to meet Friday to discuss Israel, Gaza

The UN Security Council will meet on Friday to discuss the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Brazil, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, called the “meeting to address the situation at the Gaza Strip”, the country's ministry said in a statement.

Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Mauro Vieira has interrupted a trip to Asia to travel to New York to attend the meeting.

Members of the UN's KS were divided over politics concerning Israel and Palestinians at a meeting Sunday.

The children should never be held hostage, anywhere in the world,” Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on X, once Twitter on Wednesday, reports the BBC, broadcast Clankosova.tv.

He said Hamas should free children who have been kidnapped by their families”.

The president also urged Israel to prevent the “bombings so Palestinian children and their mothers” can leave Gaza through Egypt.

There should be a minimum of humanity in the madness of war. ”