Brazil calls for Friday UN Security Council meeting on humanitarian issue in Gaza

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Ana Flor: Brazil calls for UN Security Council meeting Brazil, which is president of the United Nations (UN) Security Council this month, called for a meeting of the body for Friday (13). The objective is to discuss humanitarian issues in the Gaza Strip. The region has been the target of Israeli bombings since the weekend, when the terrorist group Hamas carried out attacks on Israeli territory. Brazil’s decision was taken in the last few hours, in conversations led by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mauro Viera, who is in Cambodia, will embark this Thursday (12) for New York, where the UN is located. He is expected to arrive on Friday, and will already participate in the Security Council meeting. Brazil is being led in the UN Security Council by Ambassador Sergio Danese. Read also: Ambassador cites difficulties in negotiating with Egypt to remove Brazilians from Gaza Brazilian in Gaza is warned about attack on neighboring house: ‘We don’t have enough time to leave’ Israeli Prime Minister joins forces with main opponent and forms emergency government with cabinet of war Humanitarian concern According to the minister of the Presidency’s Communication Secretariat, Paulo Pimenta, Lula is focused on the withdrawal of Brazilians from the region and also on the construction of a humanitarian corridor that connects Gaza to Egypt. The corridor would be used for people to leave the region and for the flow of supplies and medicines.

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