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The UN Security Council (UNSC) is set to vote on a resolution urging for extended humanitarian pauses throughout Gaza to allow more desperately needed humanitarian aid into the war-torn Palestinian enclave.
With the usual handful of UNSC members expected to abstain from voting for the resolution, Reuters quoted many UN diplomats as suggesting that they expect the Security Council to stand behind calls for a ceasefire amid increasingly grim reports of the rapidly escalating genocide in Gaza.
For the Security Council to adopt a resolution, at least nine votes should approve the text. Meanwhile, a veto by any of the council’s five permanent members — US, Russia, China, France, and Britain — will yet again sink the much-needed resolution.
This is the fifth time for the UNSC to attempt to adopt a resolution to stop Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
According to the Associated Press, however, the much-expected UNSC resolution does not mention the desperately needed ceasefire that the overwhelming majority of the global community has been calling for to end Israel’s merciless shelling and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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Since October 7, Israel killed at least 11,300 people in Gaza and the West Bank while Western powers condone or avert their gaze from the Israeli army’s punitive and genocidal campaign.
Israel also continues to deny humanitarian access to Gaza, and hospitals are being shut down one after the other.
As well as blockading the war-torn Palestinian enclave, Israeli occupation forces have continued their merciless, unrelenting bombardment of civilian infrastructure, including shelters, schools, mosques, churches and hospitals.
“I’m appalled by the military raids in Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. The protection of newborns, patients, medical staff and all civilians must override all other concerns. Hospitals are not battlegrounds,” Relief Coordinator Martin Griffths, UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency, said today
