NEW YORK, Wednesday, May 29, 2027 (WAFA) - Algeria is circulating a draft UN Security Council resolution to "stop the killing" in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah as Israel intensifies its attacks in the densely populated area.

"Algeria will circulate this afternoon a draft resolution on Rafah. It will be a short text, a decisive text, to stop the killing in Rafah," Algeria’s Ambassador to the UN, Amar Bendjama, told reporters following a Security Council meeting.

The draft resolution calls on Israel to "immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in Rafah.”

It demands an immediate cease-fire respected by all parties and the "immediate and unconditional" release of all hostages while demanding that the parties "comply with their obligations under international law in relation to all persons they detain.”

The draft resolution also expresses "grave concern" over the catastrophic humanitarian situation with a famine spreading throughout the Gaza Strip and condemns the "indiscriminate targeting" of civilians and civilian infrastructure.

The US has vetoed three previous UN Security Council resolutions calling for a cease-fire in Gaza since Oct. 7 and called the March 25 cease-fire resolution, which was adopted with the US abstaining, "non-binding."

Algeria’s move comes after at least 45 people were killed, mostly women and children, and nearly 250 injured in an Israeli strike on a displaced persons camp in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday. It occurred near the logistics base of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Tal al-Sultan.

K.T