UNGA approves resolution for humanitarian truce in Gaza
The resolution was submitted by Jordan and approved with 120 votes in favor, 14 against and 45 abstentions. The text is the first to be adopted by a United Nations body after four drafts failed in the Security Council since the outbreak of violence on October 7. teleSUR
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00:00 The UN General Assembly approved on Friday the long-awaited resolution on the Gaza crisis,
00:04 calling for a humanitarian truce and the cessation of hostilities in the area.
00:07 The resolution was submitted by Jordan and approved with 120 votes in favor, 14 against
00:13 and 45 abstentions.
00:15 The text is the first to be adopted by the United Nations body after four draft files
00:19 to the Security Council since the outbreak of violence on October 7.
00:24 "Today, the General Assembly declared that a call, stop the war and stop it now, send
00:34 the humanitarian assistance now at scale and also stop the ethnic cleansing and the killing
00:41 and protect the Palestinians, protect the civilians.
00:45 All these things were contained in this General Assembly resolution.
00:51 Therefore we will take it.
00:53 The Security Council has to take it."
00:56 Palestinian Ambassador Mansour also welcomed the new Europe's perspectives on Palestine.
01:02 "The great majority of European countries either voted in favor or abstained and we
01:10 are beginning to see what we wanted to accomplish, that the Europeans beginning to look at the
01:17 situation from humanitarian angle and that would be very helpful whether in the Security
01:24 Council or in maximizing pressure in Israel to stop this war."
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