Jerusalem (CNN) — With more than 1,000 people killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict, the U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting in New York early Monday to push for “an immediate and unconditional humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza.”

The halt in violence would allow for the delivery of urgently needed assistance, the 15-nation council said.

But as the past week has shown, cease-fires between the dueling sides are short-lived.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN on Sunday that he hopes for sustained calm “as soon as possible.”

U.S. President Barack Obama had another phone conversation with Netanyahu on Sunday, underscoring U.S. “strong condemnation” of Hamas attacks and reaffirming “Israel’s right to defend itself,” the White House said. The President also “reiterated the United States’ serious and growing concern about the rising number of Palestinian civilian deaths and the loss of Israeli lives, as well as the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza.”

“We are now maintaining an unlimited humanitarian cease-fire,” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told CNN on Monday. “Our troops will only fire if they come under direct attack.”

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said militants fired a rocket that hit the Eshokol regional council. In response, “the IDF targeted two concealed rocket launchers and a weapon manufacturing site” in northern and central Gaza. Read More.