The Hamas offer, issued Thursday after talks with Egyptian mediators, proposed a truce during which Israel's embargo on the territory would be lifted.
Mr. Haniya also spoke in favor of a truce in his speech in Gaza, while insisting that it include an easing of the yearlong economic embargo on the territory.
He demanded the US lift its economic embargo and return the "territory usurped by the Guantanamo Naval Base".
The same evidently goes for rapping Khartoum on the violence in Darfur, which is on the Council's agenda, or putting an arms embargo over the entire territory of Sudan or discussing Zimbabwe and other violators of peace and security.
Mr. Obama could also press Israel to open up the Gaza border crossings, and to lift the embargo that has left the territory in such dire straits.
Unlike most Gazans, many people in this village are not refugees from the 1948 independence war, but farmers and landowners, who for years sold strawberries to Israel until an embargo against the Hamas-run territory began a few years ago.
Embargoed appointments are not included.
It also called for an arms embargo that applies to the entire territory of Libya, which means that any outside supply of arms to the opposition would have to be covert.
While Gaza's borders are controlled by Israel, and the territory is subject to an embargo Israel imposed in 2007, Gaza is no longer occupied by Israel, which unilaterally withdrew its military forces in 2005.
"The arms embargo applies to the whole of the territory of Libya, but at the same time UN security council resolution 1973 allows all necessary measures to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas.
In 2009 IFCO raised more than $1.2 million to provide aid through the group Viva Palestina to the people of Gaza, the Palestinian territory that is under Israeli embargo and home to thousands of "acutely malnourished children," according to UNICEF.
