Gaza health authorities say more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive launched in response to a Hamas-led attack on Israel last Oct. 7, in which Israel said 1,200 people were killed and over 250 taken hostage.
After weeks with little public diplomacy, mediators Egypt and Qatar delivered a response from Hamas to a proposal that would include a release of hostages held in Gaza and a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave.
On May 31, Biden laid out what he called a "three-phase" Israeli proposal that would include negotiations for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
They urged the implementation of relevant UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions and the UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution 2720, emphasising the need for unhindered humanitarian aid access to Gaza.
The document also calls for the return of Palestinians to their homes and neighbourhoods, and for housing units to be delivered by the international community.
Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators called on Israel and Hamas Saturday to "finalise" the truce deal.
Kenya's Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs Korir Sing'Oei on Saturday aligned Kenya with the initiative that seeks an end to the conflict.
The first phase of Israel's offer would last for six weeks and would include a "full and complete" ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from "all populated areas" of Gaza and the "release of a number of hostages including women, the elderly, the wounded in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners."
Tensions have been growing between Egypt and Israel over the Israeli military operation in Rafah at the southern end of the Gaza Strip, just across the border from Egypt.
The US, which has played a mediation role in the talks, said it was studying the Hamas response and would discuss it with Middle East allies.
Amid diplomatic manoeuvres in the push for an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict, Middle East expert John Strawson says the crisis has reached a critical moment.
On their second day of truce talks in Cairo with Egyptian and Qatari mediators, Hamas negotiators maintained their stance that any truce agreement must end the war.
Jamaica joins a list that includes some 140 UN member states and the 11 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries.
The US is the only country that abstained from voting and did not veto the resolution as it has done in the past.
This comes after Russia and China on Friday vetoed a US-led draft resolution that condemned a recent attack by Hamas but did not explicitly demand an immediate end to Israel's campaign in Gaza
The product of more than a month of negotiations and the exchange of updated drafts among council members, the final text reflects growing concern and international outrage over the worsening humanitarian catastrophe in the southern Gazan city of Rafah.
Lieutenant-General Yasir Al-Atta says the military and the people cannot agree to a truce dictated by others and that the RSF must leave civilian sites.
A total of 127 people died in 24 hours, Hamas-run Gaza's health ministry said, as the main battlefront edged closer to far-southern Rafah, where 1.4 million Palestinians live
CIA Director William Burns was due in Cairo Tuesday for a new round of talks on a Qatari-brokered ceasefire proposal that would temporarily halt fighting in exchange for Hamas freeing hostages.
The countries are the US, Australia, Britain, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Switzerland. They have welcomed investigation into the allegations that some UNRWA staff took part in Hamas's October 7 attack.