After a week of fierce negotiations, the UN Security Council approved a decision calling on Israel and Hamas to suspend the fighting to allow more humanitarian assistance.
On Friday, the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution that would provide more assistance to the civilian population of the Gaza Sector in despair, putting an end to the almost weekly tense diplomatic negotiations, which aimed to prevent the blocking of this event by the United States. But this resolution could not stop the previous attempts to impose a ceasefire.
Voting took place with 13 votes against 0, while the United States and Russia abstained.
The resolution was adopted after the diplomats repeatedly postponed the vote this week and finalized the event during hot negotiations aimed at obtaining support from the United States, which previously vetoed two resolutions, which called for ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.
This event did not provide for a legally mandatory ceasefire, but instead called for "urgent and prolonged humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza sector for a sufficient number of days to ensure full, fast, safe and unobstructed humanitarian access."
Previous projects also disappeared the requirements for "urgent termination of hostilities", replacing them with more mitigated wording, which recommended to create "conditions for sustainable termination of hostilities".
"We know that this is not the perfect text," said the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations on Friday in the Security Council of Lana Zaki Nussibes.
But she added: "The purpose of this text is very simple: it is a response to a terrible humanitarian situation in the places for the Palestinian people, which carries the main burden of this conflict, and at the same time protects those who are trying to deliver vital help."
Even after the United States made it clear that they would not veto this event, sharp differences have been preserved.
Vasily Neenz, the Russian ambassador to the UN, accused the United States of "shameful, cynical and irresponsible" behavior in negotiations. He said that the resolution had been released to such an extent that it gave "Israel the green light for war crimes."
Linda Thomas Grinfield, the US Ambassador to the UN, said: "I am not going to respond to the Tirad of Russia-a country that also created the conditions they complain about in their unprovoked war in Ukraine."
The UN events were taken at a time when the Israeli troops continued its attack on gas on Friday and ordered the inhabitants of the central part of the enclave to move further south. The call for evacuation in Al-Buregei-an area in the central part of Gaza, where Israel had not previously concentrated his offensive-was heard at a time when the military operated in the northern part of the Gaza sector and around the southern city of Han-Yunis.
"Our forces continue to intensify ground operations in the north and south of the Gaza," said Daniel Hagari, Chief Snar of the Israeli Army on Thursday evening.
In negotiations with the main Arab countries that promote the resolution, the United States demanded the immediate release of all hostages stolen during the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, as well as the creation of a mechanism that would allow Israel to play a role in the UN-assistance program.
But it remains unknown how many parts of the resolution - including pause in hostilities, the use of "all available routes" to deliver assistance and release all hostages - will be fulfilled. Although the Security Council resolutions are legally binding, the parties often ignore them.
The resolution has also lost some of the formulations of previous projects on the gase assistance inspections and now allows Israel to be involved. It contains a request to the UN Secretary General Anthony Guterrish to appoint an official who would "consult with all the corresponding sides" and is responsible for "assistance, coordination, monitoring and verification" that the goods that come to the Gaza are humanitarian in nature.
Much of the world has lost patience in the war of Israel in Gas, where the humanitarian crisis deepens with every day. The United Nations warns of the risk of hunger in gas, where famine and illnesses spread rapidly, and 1.9 million people were forced to leave their homes, with many of them displaced into pitiful crowded shelters in the south or forced to live in the open.
Ms. Thomas Grinfield said that the resolution proposed by the United Arab Emirates "speaks of the severity of the crisis and calls on all of us more."
She did not explain why the United States had abstained, but said that it was deeply disappointed that the resolution did not condemn Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.
Mr. Guterres said that the resolution would help the UN and humanitarian organizations to deliver more food, water and medicines to people in gas, but noted that the only way to truly solve the crisis is to stop the fighting.
"Humanitarian ceasefire is the only way to start meeting the desperate needs of people in gas and putting an end to their nightmare," he told reporters after the vote.
The UN Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan thanked the Biden President and other US officials for "standing on the side of Israel" throughout the negotiations and "adhered to certain red lines."
"The resolution retains the right to control and check the assistance coming into the Gaza," Mr Erdan said in his statement. He also criticized the Security Council for not condemning the attack on October 7, and added: "The UN concentration is only on Gazi assistance mechanisms unnecessary and detached from reality-Israel, in any case, allows the import of assistance to any required volume."
Riyad Mansur, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, spoke to the Council with an emotional speech, holding back tears, telling the story of a Palestinian girl who lost her parents and two brothers and sisters as a result of the Israeli Air Force in their home. She was also killed after a hospital blow, he said.
"This resolution is a step in the right direction," he said. "It must be performed and must be accompanied by mass pressure for immediate ceasefire - I repeat, immediately ceasefire."
Currently, humanitarian aid trucks that enter the gases must go from Egypt to Kerem Shal in Israel for checking, then return to Egypt and cross the border with gas - a process that officials of the UN are called burdensome and unacceptable.
The United Arab Emirates and Egypt, which controls the border crossing of the Rafah, wanted the UN to check the goods of assistance for weapons and other smuggling, claiming that it would simplify the process. But the United States argued that the inspection should be effective in Israel.
Gaza's health representatives say that about 20,000 people, many of whom children and women have been killed as a result of Israel's military offensive.
During the first six weeks of the war, Israel regularly used the 2000-fuel bombs-one of the largest and most destructive-in areas that he defined as safe for civilian population, according to the analysis of visual evidence conducted by The New York Times. Although bombs of this size use some Western armed forces, ammunition experts say that US troops almost never throw them away in densely populated areas.
Israel launched this campaign after Hamas, which controls gas, led the attack on Israel in October, which resulted in killed 1,200 people and about 240 stolen, said Israeli officials.
The purpose of the Israeli military is to put an end to Hamas in gas, to destroy or weaken its military potential to such an extent that it is no longer a threat to Israel, as well as to return about 120 hostages that remain in gas.
But for the time being, Hamas's higher leaders are avoiding admiration, and gases continue to fire Israel with rockets, including two barrier missile fighters have reached Tel Aviv and its surroundings this week.
Political commentators and some military experts reduce the expectations of the fast and decisive victory of Israel.
"No one should imagine the situation when we lift the flag on the top of the hill and say," Well, we won, and now the Gaza will be peaceful and safe. "This will not happen," said Gabi Siboni, a reserve colonel and an employee of the Conservative Jerusalem Institute of Strategy and Security. "The reality is that we will fight in gas for many more years."
