The battle within the Gaza Strip started on Oct 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen stormed into Israeli communities, killing round 1,200 individuals and abducting about 250 hostages, in line with Israeli tallies.
Since then, Israel’s army has leveled swaths of the Palestinian enclave, driving practically all of its 2.3 million individuals from their houses, giving rise to lethal starvation and illness and killing greater than 41,000 individuals, in line with Palestinian well being authorities.
The Basic Meeting on Oct 27 referred to as for a right away humanitarian truce in Gaza with 120 votes in favor. Then in December, 153 nations voted to demand – as a substitute of calling for – a right away humanitarian ceasefire in December.
A two-thirds majority of these current and voting – abstentions do not depend – is required to cross the draft decision on Wednesday. Mansour advised reporters on Monday that whereas he anticipated the draft textual content to be adopted, it could probably be with much less assist than acquired by the resolutions final 12 months.
The Palestinian Authority represents the Palestinian individuals on the UN, the place it’s a non-member observer state and the delegation is called the State of Palestine.
