UN Security Council to convene to address Israel's Gaza City 'takeover plan'
Iran Press TV
Friday, 08 August 2025 6:50 PM
The United Nations Security Council is set to hold an emergency session this Saturday evening to address the Israeli regime's latest push to occupy Gaza City.
The meeting had urgently been requested by multiple Council members in response to the regime's unprecedented intensification of its October 2023-present war of genocide against the densely populated coastal sliver.
Speaking to Qatar's Al Jazeera television network, diplomatic sources said earlier said Russia, China, Somalia, and Algeria had fully backed the session.
In stark contrast, the United States, the regime's biggest supporter, was actively opposing the meeting, pressuring the Council to avoid even discussing Tel Aviv's new aggressive plans.
News about the meeting came just hours after the regime's war cabinet approved a sweeping military plan aimed at capturing the city and expanding Tel Aviv's already-near-total siege on the strip.
Earlier reports had indicated that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who already faces an international arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity against Gazans, was pushing for the return of the entire territory to Israeli occupation.
Reacting to the Gaza City occupation plan, the territory's Hamas resistance movement said the scheme amounted to a "full-fledged war crime" and "ethnic cleansing," warning the regime that such actions would come at a "high cost."
"The approval by the Zionist 'cabinet' of plans to occupy Gaza City and forcibly evacuate its residents constitutes a new war crime that the occupation army is preparing to commit against the city and its nearly one million inhabitants," the group stated on Friday.
Its fellow regional resistance groups and numerous international officials have similarly issued serious warnings.
The push to further escalate the war, which the regime claims is aimed at enabling the return of the Israeli captives remaining in Gaza, comes while Hamas has offered full assistance towards contributing to their release in return for Tel Aviv's cooperation.
The movement has already released 30 of the captives as part of a ceasefire deal and returned five others outside the framework of any agreement.
Indiscriminate Israeli assaults have, meanwhile, taken the lives of at least 20 of them.
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