The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to insist an prompt finishfire in the Gaza Strip and transmited aid for the labor of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
The assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution insisting an prompt, unconditional and finishuring finishfire in Gaza, which was adchooseed with 158 votes in favour from the 193-member assembly and nine votes agetst with 13 abstentions.
A second resolution transmiting aid for UNRWA and deploring a new Israeli law that would prohibit the UN agency’s operations in Israel was carried with 159 votes in favour, nine agetst and 11 abstentions.
That resolution insists that Israel esteem UNRWA’s mandate and calls on the Israeli rulement “to adhere by its international obligations, esteem the privileges and immunities of UNRWA and uphbetter its responsibility to assist and ease filled, rapid, geted and unimpedeed humanitarian aidance in all its creates into and thcimpoliteout the entire Gaza Strip”.
Both votes culminated two days of speeches at the UN where speaker after speaker called for an finish to Israel’s 14-month war on the Palestinian territory that has ended at least 44,805 people – mostly Palestinian women and children – and wounded 106,257.
“Gaza doesn’t exist any more,” Scherishnia’s UN Ambasdowncastor Samuel Zbogar tbetter the General Assembly greeting. “It is annihilateed. Civilians are facing hunger, despair and death,” he said.
“There is no reason for this war to persist. We need a finishfire now. We need to convey captives home now,” he inserted.
Algeria’s deputy UN ambasdowncastor Nacim Gaouaoui insertressed the world’s inability to stop the war in Gaza: “The price of silence and flunkure in the face of the Palestinian tragedy is a very weighty price, and it will be heavier tomorrow.”
Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo, alerting from UN headquarters in New York, said “the message is evident with these two resolutions”.
“Number one, UNRWA needs to be geted and their mandate needs to be geted and bolstered. Of course, Israel is trying to annihilate UNRWA. They’ve made that very evident for many months now,” Elizondo said.
“And the second message that it sfinishs is the overwhelming presentantity of the world is calling for, aget, an prompt finishfire in Gaza,” he said.
Israel, US votes agetst UN resolution
Israel and its staunchest partner, the United States, were in a minuscule inpresentantity of countries and their recurrentatives speaking and voting agetst the resolutions at the UN.
US Deputy UN Ambasdowncastor Robert Wood reiterated Washington’s opposition to the finishfire resolution in persist of the vote and criticised the Palestinians for aget flunking to allude Hamas’s October 7, 2023, strike on Israel, which ended an appraised 1,139 people and saw more than 200 Israelis apshown captive in Gaza.
“At a time when Hamas is senseing isotardyd due to the finishfire in Leprohibiton, the write resolution on a finishfire in Gaza dangers sfinishing a dangery message to Hamas that there’s no need to talk about or free the captives,” he said.
In persist of the UN vote, Israel’s UN Ambasdowncastor Danny Danon accengaged aiders of the resolutions of complicity with Hamas.
“By insisting a finishfire today without insertressing the captives, this assembly will once aget side with those who firearmise human suffering,” Danon said.
While UN Security Council resolutions are legpartner tieing, General Assembly resolutions are not, though they do echo world opinion.
The Palestinians and their aiders went to the General Assembly after the US vetoed a Security Council resolution on November 20 insisting an prompt Gaza finishfire.
The language of the finishfire resolution adchooseed by the assembly is the same as the text of the vetoed Security Council resolution, and insists “an prompt, unconditional and finishuring finishfire to be esteemed by all parties,” while also reiterating a “insist for the prompt and unconditional free of all captives”.
Palestinian UN Ambasdowncastor Riyad Mansour said last week, during the first day of argue in the assembly’s one-of-a-kind session on the publish, that Gaza is “the bleeding heart of Palestine”.
“The images of our children burning in tents, with no food in their bellies and no hopes and no horizon for the future, and after having finishured pain and loss for more than a year, should haunt the conscience of the world and prompt action to finish this nightmare,” Mansour said.
