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UN Security Council adopts resolution for \u2018humanitarian pauses\u2019 in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News<\/p>\n
The UN Security Council has passed a resolution calling for \u201curgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip\u201d\u00a0to allow for aid delivery and medical evacuations,\u00a0after four failed attempts to respond to the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n
The resolution, introduced by Malta on Wednesday, also called for \u201ccorridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days\u201d to safeguard civilians, particularly children, ambassador Vanessa Frazier told the Council.<\/p>\n
It additionally asked for the unconditional release of captives held in Gaza.<\/p>\n
It was adopted by 12 votes in favour, zero against and three abstentions \u2013 Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is binding international law, but we know that there are many Security Council resolutions that are binding international law that Israel does not comply with. But I think it will add added pressure on Israel, particularly as the US allowed this resolution to go through \u2013 it could\u2019ve used its veto,\u201d said Al Jazeera\u2019s diplomatic editor James Bays.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of the previous four resolutions that didn\u2019t go through, probably the one nearest to going through was the one on October 18, that\u2019s when all the countries either voted for, or abstained, and the only country that voted against was the United States \u2013 it wielded its veto,\u201d Bays said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had 29 days since that date, and we know all the death toll figures are undercounted, but in that time there have been 7,600 more deaths and 3,653 of those deaths were children. What was called for then was a resolution calling for humanitarian pauses,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The resolution made no mention of a ceasefire. It also didn\u2019t refer to Hamas\u2019s attack on Israel on October 7, during which Israeli authorities say about 1,200 people were killed and some 240 were taken captive.<\/p>\n
It also omitted Israel\u2019s retaliatory air strikes and ground offensive in Gaza, which Ministry of Health officials say have killed more than 11,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and children.<\/p>\n
The resolution listed fuel as among the items that must be allowed to be delivered \u201cunhindered\u201d. And it required that the UN chief give a report on its implementation at the next meeting of the Security Council concerning the Middle East.<\/p>\n
Gilad Erdan, Israel\u2019s ambassador to the UN, was quick to respond that the resolution would have \u201cno meaning\u201d, calling it \u201cdisconnected from reality\u201d.<\/p>\n
He maintained that Israeli is acting in accordance with international law in Gaza, a claim that has been rejected by several experts on the subject.<\/p>\n
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