United States and Israel, voted in opposition to, whereas 23 abstained in the course of the UN vote on Tuesday.

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The UN Basic Meeting overwhelmingly handed a non-binding decision Tuesday demanding a ceasefire in Gaza — taking the lead from the paralyzed Safety Council, and piling stress on Israel and Washington.

The physique, which incorporates all 193 UN member nations, voted 153 in favor of the decision — exceeding the 140 or so international locations which have routinely backed resolutions condemning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

Ten international locations together with america and Israel voted in opposition to, whereas 23 abstained.

The vote within the Basic Meeting got here after the Safety Council — accountable for world peace and safety — has repeatedly didn’t make such a name.

On Friday, america, Israel’s strongest ally and one in all solely 5 everlasting members of the Safety Council, wielded its veto to halt the newest draft textual content calling for a truce.

The Council took greater than a month after the beginning of the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants to talk out — and it did so with a weak voice, calling in mid-November after 4 rejected texts for humanitarian “pauses” within the battle.

“These tragic makes an attempt are a despicable signal of double requirements,” Egypt’s ambassador to the UN Osama Mahmoud Abdelkhalek Mahmoud mentioned of Washington’s efforts to offer Israel diplomatic cowl forward of the vote within the Basic Meeting.

UN Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres has warned of a looming “full breakdown of public order” within the besieged Gaza Strip.

Many international locations and human rights organizations condemned final Friday’s Safety Council failure, and Guterres on Sunday described the Council’s authority and credibility as “undermined.”

“We agree the humanitarian scenario in Gaza is dire,” mentioned Washington’s ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield forward of Tuesday’s vote.

“It is the diplomacy that america is partaking in on the bottom that made that week-long humanitarian pause potential,” she mentioned, referring to the one lull within the combating to this point, which occurred final month.

Thomas-Greenfield urged international locations to again an modification to Tuesday’s decision that may have condemned Hamas, however that was voted down.

She additionally known as on Israel “to keep away from mass displacement of civilians within the south of Gaza,” however mentioned Israel was pursuing “respectable army aims.”

Forward of the vote, Israel’s consultant to the UN Gilad Erdan decried what he mentioned was a “hypocritical decision.”

“Not solely does it fail to sentence Hamas for its crimes in opposition to humanity — it does not point out Hamas in any respect,” he mentioned.

– ‘Catastrophic’ –

Israeli air and land assaults proceed to pummel Gaza, greater than two months after the bloody and unprecedented assault perpetrated by Hamas fighters on Israeli soil on October 7.

Some 1,200 Israelis have been killed within the preliminary assault, whereas the Hamas-run well being ministry in Gaza says greater than 18,400 Palestinians have died in Israel’s bombardment since.

Arab international locations had known as for the brand new particular session of the Basic Meeting, searching for to construct stress simply after a go to to the Rafah border level by greater than a dozen Safety Council ambassadors.

The textual content that was handed on Tuesday largely reproduced the decision blocked within the Council on Friday by america.

Expressing concern on the “catastrophic humanitarian scenario within the Gaza Strip,” it “calls for a direct humanitarian ceasefire,” and requires the safety of civilians, humanitarian entry, and the “instant and unconditional” launch of all hostages.

Forward of vote, the prime ministers of Australia, Canada and New Zealand — shut allies of Israel in addition to america — mentioned in a joint assertion that “we’re alarmed on the diminishing secure area for civilians in Gaza.”

“The value of defeating Hamas can’t be the continual struggling of all Palestinian civilians,” they mentioned.

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