UN Adopts Resolution on Gaza Cease-Fire as Blinken Presses Israel and Hamas.
Sunday, one day following an Israeli special forces operation in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, a Palestinian man surveys the damage.
With only Russia abstaining, the UN Security Council on Monday approved a cease-fire plan for the Gaza Strip, supported by the United States. This indicates the major countries' growing impatience with the ongoing conflict and determination to see it end. The United States ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, informed the Security Council that although Israel has not yet taken a stance on the resolution, it has already accepted the agreement outlined in it. She then asked Hamas to “do the same.”
Jerusalem — The number of casualties from Israel's Saturday hostage rescue operation has raised concerns about whether the nation is going far enough in its campaign against Hamas in Gaza to safeguard civilians. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the daylight raid in the Nuseirat refugee camp resulted in the deaths of at least 274 Palestinians and hundreds more injuries. It also liberated four Israeli detainees.
A resolution supported by the United States that called for support for the American-backed cease-fire proposal for Gaza was adopted by the UN Security Council on Monday, 14-0. Russia didn't vote. The vote was a unique diplomatic win for the Biden administration about Gaza in the international forum, since even its closest allies have denounced Israel and the United States' backing of its policies in Gaza.
In the midst of Israel's nonstop shelling of Gaza, U.S. Agency for International Development director Samantha Power said on Thursday that the situation there is "worse now than ever before." Citing humanitarian organisations active in Gaza, Power asserted that Israel's military operations and the blockade of border crossings "are making it extremely difficult to distribute aid." A border gate between Egypt and Gaza that was used to convey humanitarian aid has been closed ever since Israel began ordering inhabitants to leave Rafah, the southern city where over a million Palestinians were seeking safety, in early May.
