Patience is running out among United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members and the 15-member body will likely consider taking action if a ceasefire cannot soon be brokered between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Slovenia’s UN envoy — council president for September — said.

“There is a raising anxiousness in the council that it has to move one way or the other — either there is a ceasefire or that the council then reflects on what else we can do to bring the ceasefire,” said Slovenia’s UN Ambassador Samuel Zbogar.

“I’m pretty sure that in September it will have to go […] one way or the other, not because we want (it to), but because I think the patience is out,” he told reporters.