The UN Security Council has supported a multi-stage plan presented by US President Joe Biden for a ceasefire in the Gaza war after adopting a corresponding resolution in New York on Monday.
Fourteen member states voted in favour of the draft, while Russia, one of the veto powers, abstained.
US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said afterwards that the UN's most powerful body had voted for peace.
The paper supports a plan presented by Biden that envisages an end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip in three phases.
According to the US, only the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement has not yet agreed to the plan. However, the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet given its clear and public approval to the plan either.
The Security Council resolution, which is binding under international law, declares that Israel has accepted the plan and calls on Hamas to do the same and urges all parties involved to implement the plan without delay and without conditions.
It was the 11th time since the beginning of the war in Gaza that the UN Security Council has voted on a resolution on the conflict. Only four proposed resolutions were adopted.
The ambitious draft deal presented by Biden at the end of May initially provides for a complete and unrestricted ceasefire of six weeks. During this period, a certain group of hostages would be released. In return, Palestinians imprisoned in Israel would be released.
In the next phase, the fighting would then cease permanently and the remaining hostages would be released.
According to the draft, the final phase would see the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip begin.
Deaths in the West Bank
Two people were killed in Israeli army raids in the West Bank on Monday, according to Palestinian reports.
The Palestinian militant organization Hamas said that a member of its military arm had been killed in Tulkarem.
According to the Ministry of Health in Ramallah, a 15-year-old boy was shot dead in a separate incident in Fara, south of Tubas. Five other people were said injured by gunfire.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spoke of "counterterrorism activity in the area" of Fara.
"Thus far, the forces apprehended three wanted suspects and dismantled explosive devices," the IDF said in a statement.
"Furthermore, exchanges of fire are currently taking place with armed terrorists, during which a terrorist was eliminated and hits to additional terrorists were identified. The counterterrorism activity is ongoing."
"Moreover, in the towns of Faqqua, Rumana, and Dhinnaba, the security forces apprehended four suspects and eliminated an armed terrorist," the IDF statement said.
The situation in the occupied West Bank has worsened considerably since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip on October 7.
Since then, 512 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military operations, confrontations or attacks of their own, according to the local health ministry.
The Israeli army said on Monday that around 4,150 wanted Palestinians had been arrested in the West Bank since the start of the war. Around 1,750 of them belonged to Hamas, it said.
