•The United Nations Security Council overwhelmingly approved its first resolution endorsing a ceasefire plan aimed at ending the eight-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
•The U.S.-sponsored resolution welcomes a ceasefire proposal by President Joe Biden that the United States says Israel has accepted.
•It calls on militant Palestinian group Hamas to accept 3-phase plan.
•The resolution was approved with 14 of the 15 Security Council members voting in favour and Russia abstaining.
•U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel, where he urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the plan.
•Israel launched its war against Hamas after the group’s October 7 attack, in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.
