The conflict within the Gaza Strip started on Oct 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen stormed into Israeli communities, killing round 1,200 folks and abducting about 250 hostages, based on Israeli tallies.
Since then, Israel’s army has leveled swaths of the Palestinian enclave, driving practically all of its 2.3 million folks from their houses, giving rise to lethal starvation and illness and killing greater than 41,000 folks, based on Palestinian well being authorities.
The Basic Meeting on Oct 27 known as for a right away humanitarian truce in Gaza with 120 votes in favor. Then in December, 153 international locations voted to demand – as an alternative of calling for – a right away humanitarian ceasefire in December.
A two-thirds majority of these current and voting – abstentions do not rely – 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 will doubtless be with much less help than obtained by the resolutions final yr.
The Palestinian Authority represents the Palestinian folks on the UN, the place it’s a non-member observer state and the delegation is named the State of Palestine.