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The UN General Assembly approved the resolution as Israel put Gaza under a complete communications blackout and launched a brutal air campaign that leveled hundreds of residential buildings
Hamas welcomed the resolution, saying in a statement that they “demand its immediate application to allow the entry of fuel and humanitarian aid for civilians.”
The resolution, which called for a durable, immediate, and sustainable suspension of hostilities and for the parties at war to comply with the “continuous, sufficient and unhindered” transfer of essential humanitarian aid to Gaza, saw 120 nations vote in favor, 14 against, and 45 abstentions.
“We reject outright the [UNGA]'s despicable call for a ceasefire,” Israel Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on social media. "Israel intends to eliminate Hamas just as the world dealt with the Nazis and ISIS.”
In a similar fashion, Israel Ambassador Gilad Erdan said in response to the approval of the resolution that “today is a day that will go down in infamy.”
“We have all witnessed that the UN holds not even one ounce of legitimacy,” the ambassador said. “The UN is committed to ensuring further atrocity. According to the family of nations, Israel has no right to defend itself.”
A Canadian-led amendment calling for the condemnation of Hamas to be added was rejected as it failed to garner the required two-thirds majority vote. All Arab states voted against the amendment.
Friday’s emergency assembly saw the heads of nations around the world state their worries about the war in Palestine.
“We are meeting here while Palestinians in Gaza are under the bombs,” Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine Riyad Mansour said, speaking earlier in the day. “You are speaking while families are being killed, while hospitals are coming to a halt, while neighborhoods are being destroyed, while people are fleeing from one place to another with no safe place to go.”
Mansour added that there is no time to mourn the atrocities, “If you do not stop it for all those who have been killed, stop it for all those who can be saved,” he said after pointing to the rising death toll in Gaza.
Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, spoke during the assembly, saying that the international community is witness to the “war crimes and genocide of the occupying Israeli regime in Gaza and the West Bank of Palestine.”
“Unfortunately, this is the state of our world today,” Amir-Abdollahian added. "This is the situation of the Security Council, which was supposed to try to establish world peace and security,”
The resolution was passed during the most intense bombing campaign by the Israelis since the start of the war. The bombs dropped on Gaza during a total blackout of communications from the besieged enclave.
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