🔴 Live: UN to vote on Gaza ceasefire resolution as Qatar talks continue
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Israel's spy chief was due to travel to Qatar on Friday for ceasefire negotiations while the US planned to put a resolution calling for an immediate truce in Gaza to a vote of the UN Security Council. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said talks mediated by the US, Qatar, and Egypt could still reach a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. The United States called for a vote on a UN resolution declaring an immediate and sustained ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. European Union leaders called for an 'immediate' humanitarian pause in Gaza. Israel said it expected to continue attacks on Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City for a few more days. The facility is the only partially working medical facility in the north of the enclave and has already been under attack for four days. According to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave, 31,988 Palestinians have been killed and 74,188 wounded since the offensive on Gaza began. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with foreign ministers from while in Cairo on Thursday as he pushes for a pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas. More than a third of the US Senate's Democrats called on President 's administration to take 'bold' action towards establishing a Palestinian state. Gaza's health ministry collects data on casualties, but does not report how Palestinians were killed or distinguish between civilians and combatants. The UN and other organizations have cited the ministry's death tolls in their reports.

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