After the United States abstained from the ballot, the UN Security Council demanded an immediate peace between Israel and Hamas and the transfer of all victims.
The remaining 14 committee members voted for the solution, which was proposed by the 10 elected members of the body.
” The Arab citizens has suffered considerably. This catastrophe has raged on far too lengthy. It is our responsibility to put an end to this disaster, before it is too late”, Algeria’s U. N. adviser Amar Bendjama told the government after the ballot.
If the United States did n’t veto the resolution, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly threatened to rescind a planned group to Washington shortly before the council meeting started.
Washington had opposed the word “ceasefire” earlier in the almost six-month-old conflict in the Gaza Strip and had used its filibuster to support U.S. allies in the wake of Hamas ‘ Oct. 7 strike, which Israel claims killed 1, 200 people.
The United States abstained from the ballot on Monday in light of growing international force to end the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which ends in two days.
The solution also demands the instant and , absolute discharge of all victims. Israel says Hamas took 253 victims during its Oct. 7 harm.
” The , United States support for these goals is not merely poetic. We’re working around the clock to make them true on the ground through politics, because we know that it is only through politics that we can force this plan ahead”, said U. S. ambassador to the U. N. Linda Thomas- Greenfield.
We must press Hamas to achieve that, she said, because a stalemate may start with the first hostage release.
The United States abstained from the voting, according to Thomas- Greenfield, because it disagreed with the resolution’s entirety and because it did not explicitly condemn Hamas.
Additionally, the Security Council resolution “reaffirms its immediate need to increase the movement of humanitarian aid to and strengthen the safety of civilians in the whole Gaza Strip” and “reaffirms its need for the removal of all barriers to the provision of charitable assistance at scale.”
Three draft resolutions from the Gaza War have received US vetoes. Additionally, it has previously abstained twice, allowing the council to pass resolutions that called for extended pauses in fighting and aimed to increase aid to Gaza.
Russia and China have also vetoed two U. S. drafted resolutions on the conflict—in October and on Friday.
