UNSC Approves Resolution for Humanitarian Pauses and Aid to Gaza

UNSC Approves Resolution for Humanitarian Pauses and Aid to Gaza

VoM News Desk | December 23, 2023 | 01:23 PM IST | Breaking News, Israel, Palasteine, World | Follow on Google News

UNSC Approves Resolution for Humanitarian Pauses and Aid to Gaza

UNSC Approves Resolution for Humanitarian Pauses and Aid to Gaza

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has approved a resolution that calls for humanitarian pauses between Israel and Hamas, increased aid to Gaza, and the creation of conditions that will allow for a sustainable end to fighting. 

The resolution, which was passed after days of closed-door negotiations, urges “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days to enable full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access”.

The US and Russia abstained from the vote, deciding against using their vetoes as permanent members of the body. 

US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield praised the resolution but abstained from voting in favor of it after the text failed to include a condemnation of Hamas.

A senior US diplomat told CNN that the US was eager not to vote against the resolution after suffering global blowback for vetoing the last Security Council resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire1.The resolution on Friday calls for “urgent steps” to lay the groundwork “for a sustainable cessation of hostilities”.

The US diplomat stated that creating conditions for sustainable cessation of hostilities is something that everybody’s looking to do, and the big dispute over the last few weeks has been over whether the time is right for a cessation of hostilities or if the conditions need to be right.

 A major sticking point over the draft was a call for the UN to “establish a monitoring mechanism in the Gaza Strip with the necessary personnel and equipment, under the authority of the United Nations Secretary-General”. 

The US had argued that the proposal for a UN-created monitoring mechanism for aid going into the Gaza Strip would be cumbersome and slow down the delivery of critical assistance.

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