The resolution passed with 120 UN member states voting yes and 14 voting no – marking the first formal response from the UN since hostilities began.
Australia’s ambassador to the United Nations says the country abstained from a resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas because it was “incomplete” and did not recognise the terror group’s responsibility for the October 7 attack against Israel.
“The resolution did not recognise terror group Hamas as the perpetrator of the 7 October attack, and Australia again explicitly calls for the immediate and unconditional release of hostages.” At the UN General Assembly, the 193-member body adopted the resolution after rejecting a Canadian amendment backed by the United States and supported by Australia.
Israeli ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan condemned the resolution and said “today is a day that will go down in infamy”.“We have all witnessed that the UN holds not even one ounce of legitimacy,” he said in a statement read to the General Assembly. “The UN is committed to ensuring further atrocity. According to the family of nations, Israel has no right to defend itself.”
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