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He agreed UN Security CouncilOn Wednesday, a draft resolution was approved calling for “urgent and extended humanitarian truces” that would allow aid to enter Gaza strip Which is subjected to continuous Israeli aggression for the 41st day in a row.
The resolution submitted by Malta – which currently chairs the Council’s Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict – called for “the opening of humanitarian corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days to enable UN humanitarian agencies and their partners to have full, urgent and unhindered access to provide humanitarian assistance.”
It also urges the immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners held by Palestinian resistance factions, especially children, as well as ensuring immediate access to humanitarian aid.
It calls on all parties to comply with their obligations under international law, stressing the importance of “coordination and humanitarian notification and deconfliction mechanisms to protect all medical and humanitarian personnel, humanitarian vehicles and sites, and critical infrastructure, including United Nations facilities, and to facilitate the movement of aid convoys and patients.”
Malta’s Ambassador Vanessa Fraser described the new resolution as a “balanced and practical text to respond to part of the current crisis and the immediate needs of affected children.”
12 countries voted in favor of it, while the United States, Russia and Britain abstained from voting on it.
Before adopting the new resolution, the Council rejected a proposal submitted by Russia to use the term “ceasefire” instead of “humanitarian truce.”
Israeli refusal
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the idea of allowing “extended humanitarian pauses” in the Gaza Strip called for by the Security Council resolution.
The ministry said – in a statement – that “there is no room for extended humanitarian pauses as long as 239 hostages remain in the hands of Hamas terrorists.”
It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, which has so far left 11,500 Palestinians dead, including 4,710 children and 3,160 women, as well as more than 29,000 injured, 70% of whom are children and women.
