Published November 16,2023
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Three everlasting members of the UN Security Council — Russia, the US and the UK — abstained Wednesday from voting on a draft decision calling for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors” all through Gaza.
“I’m horrified that a few members of this council still cannot bring themselves to condemn the barbaric terrorist attack that Hamas carried out against Israel on Oct. 7,” US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield instructed the Security Council.
“The United States will continue to urge this council to condemn Hamas. Although the United States is deeply disappointed by what is not in this text, we support many of the important provisions this Council has adopted,” she added.
Barbara Woodward, the UK’s ambassador to the UN, mentioned the UK “regrets” that the primary decision handed by the Council “could not clearly condemn” Hamas for its Oct. 7 assault.
Woodward mentioned it’s proper that the Security Council requires a humanitarian pause for a interval of days, noting it wanted to “establish a safer environment for humanitarians.”
“This will save lives. We need it as fast as possible,” she added.
Vasily Nebenzya, the consultant of Russia to the UN, mentioned the rationale Russia didn’t vote in favor of the decision is the “lack of a call for an immediate cease-fire.”
“This was, and remains, the top imperative. Any humanitarian actions require an immediate end to the fighting,” he added.
In addition to calling for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days” to permit humanitarian entry into Gaza, the Malta-led decision additionally requires the discharge of all hostages being held by Hamas and different teams, particularly kids.
It additionally demanded all events to adjust to worldwide regulation, together with worldwide humanitarian regulation, notably with regard to the safety of civilians, particularly kids.
The decision referred to as on all events to “refrain from depriving the civilian population in the Gaza Strip of basic services and humanitarian assistance indispensable to their survival, consistent with international humanitarian law.”
It underscored the significance of coordination, humanitarian notification and deconfliction mechanisms to guard all medical and humanitarian workers and automobiles, together with ambulances, in addition to essential infrastructure, together with UN amenities.
It additionally requested UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to “report orally to the Security Council on the implementation of this resolution at the next mandated meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East.”
Meanwhile, the Council rejected Russia’s proposal to amend the decision to incorporate “a durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to the cessation of hostilities.”
The decision adopted 4 failed makes an attempt of voting on the UN Security Council relating to the continuing Israeli-Palestinian battle since Oct. 7.
Israel has launched relentless air and floor assaults on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border assault by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7.
The authorities media workplace in Gaza on Wednesday introduced that the loss of life toll from Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has risen to 11,500, together with 4,710 kids and three,160 ladies.
The Israeli loss of life toll, in the meantime, is round 1,200, in response to official figures.
Source: www.anews.com.tr