The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution on demands for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, writes AFP.
According to the text of the resolution, the Council wants to see "an immediate and prolonged humanitarian pause and corridors through the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days".
It is the first time the Council, after several failed attempts, has agreed on a resolution since the war between Israel and Hamas began.
The vote was held at the initiative of Malta. 12 out of 15 councilors voted in favor. Three of them – the United States, Great Britain and Russia – abstained.
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Israel condemns the UN Council: "Out of touch with reality"
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns the UN resolution on "immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in Gaza, reports Haaretz.
According to the ministry, there is no scope for a ceasefire as long as Hamas is still holding Israelis hostage.
Israel's UN ambassador Gilad Erdan calls the council "out of touch with reality" and questions why it "continues to ignore, and refuses to condemn or even mention" the October 7 Hamas massacre.
Hamas' strategy is to worsen the humanitarian situation in Gaza and drive up the Palestinian death toll to get the UN to stop Israel, according to Gilad.
- That will not happen. Israel will continue to act until Hamas is eradicated and the hostages returned.
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Analysis: The hospital council does not seem to have given much
Israel doesn't seem to have much to show for its military raid on Gaza's largest al-Shifa hospital on Wednesday - unless it has more to offer, writes Orla Guerin for the BBC.
The video material that the IDF has released so far shows about ten old automatic carbines, some bulletproof vests and grenades neatly laid out on a carpet, she continues.
"It doesn't appear to be enough for a 'command center,' but Israel claims that Hamas operated just one in a labyrinth under the hospital."
As the desperate situation in Gaza's hospitals has come into focus, the rhetoric is increasingly shifting in the West, writes Diana Magnay for Sky News.
In Israel's allied countries, politicians must now convince their voters that they do not stand passively when Israel defies international humanitarian law in the name of self-defense, she continues.
Shortly after October 7, Joe Biden urged Israel not to be consumed by anger, Magnay writes.
“His warnings have continued, most recently with the message that hospitals must be protected. So far they seem to have been ignored.”
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