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 agre…