The American CNN network said on Tuesday that the UN Security Council failed to adopt a draft resolution to stop the war between Israel on the one hand and the Hamas movement and Palestinian factions on the other hand in the Gaza Strip.

CNN quoted Deputy US Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood as saying, “There is no agreement at this stage.”

A group of ten non-permanent members of the Security Council had submitted the draft resolution, but the United States and Britain, the two permanent members of the Security Council that have veto power, rejected it.

Western powers, especially Washington and London, oppose the draft resolution including phrases calling for an immediate ceasefire, according to what the Arab World News Agency reported.

“There have been discussions about humanitarian truces and we are interested in continuing the conversation in this regard,” Wood said. “There were disagreements within the Security Council about whether this (immediate ceasefire) would be acceptable.”

Israel launches an air and ground attack on Hamas after the movement carried out a bloody armed attack in southern Israel last month, killing 1,400 and taking 240 others hostage. Health authorities in the Strip said that the Israeli bombing killed at least 10,000 people in Gaza.