Drawing unusual applause in the normally staid Security Council, all 14 other members voted in favour of the resolution.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan speaks during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, at UN headquarters in New York on March 25, 2024. – After more than five months of war, the UN Security Council for the first time passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The United States, Israel’s ally which vetoed previous drafts, abstained.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanded that the resolution be implemented. “Failure would be unforgivable,” Guterres wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Moments after the United States declined to veto the latest resolution, Netanyahu announced that he would no longer send to Washington a delegation requested by President Joe Biden to discuss Rafah.
Hamas welcomed the resolution and said it would engage in talks on a prisoner exchange brokered by Qatar, after repeated delays in securing a deal.The White House insisted that its abstention did not signal a policy shift. She called on all nations to “speak out and demand unequivocally” that Hamas accept the deal and again accused Russia and China of failing to offer more than “rhetoric” to address the crisis.
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