UN Security Council Gaza vote delayed again, US signals backing


Israel-Hamas war

The UN Security Council once again on Thursday pushed back a vote for a much-delayed resolution on the war between Hamas and Israel. The postponement to Friday came even as the United States, which has opposed a number of proposals during the resolution’s drafting, said it was ready to support it in its current form. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments. 

Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour (4th R) speaks to members of the UN Security Council as they break during a meeting on the Israel-Hamas war at the United Nations headquarters on December 19, 2023 in New York City. © AFP

Summary:

  • More than half a million people in Gaza are starving due to insufficient food entering the territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, a UN report said Thursday.
  • UN Security Council diplomats delayed until Friday a vote on a resolution to increase humanitarian aid into Gaza.
  • The UN’s human rights office said it has received reports that Israeli troops “summarily killed” at least 11 unarmed Palestinians in a possible war crime in Gaza.
  • French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Thursday in Jordan for talks with King Abdullah II on aid deliveries to the besieged Gaza Strip.
  • Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was in Cairo for talks aimed at brokering a new truce amid signs that Israel was open to another humanitarian pause in order to enable more hostage releases.
  • Israeli officials say 1,139 were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks in southern Israel, among them 695 Israeli civilians, including 36 children.
  • At least 20,000 people have been killed in Israel’s ensuing assault on the Gaza Strip, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave.

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  • UN says more than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving because of war.
  • Fourteen Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in three separate attacks on Thursday in northern, central and southern Gaza Strip, medics said.
  • For journalists, the first 10 weeks of the war have been the deadliest recorded, the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a report on Thursday.
  • The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said it had delivered food into war-torn Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom border crossing in the first direct aid convoy from Jordan.
  • Residents of Khan Younis in Gaza reported intensifying gun battles between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces in the centre and eastern districts of the southern city.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)

 

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