GAZA(Palestine Foundation Information Center)Hamas Movement called the UN Security Council resolution on humanitarian aid “an insufficient step” to halt the Israeli aggression and address the dire humanitarian crisis in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Hamas said in a statement on Friday evening that the Security Council resolution should have demanded an immediate halt to Israel’s brutal aggression that has been waged against civilians in Gaza since October 7.
Hamas charged the United States with pressuring “to empty the resolution of its essence” before Friday’s Security Council vote, saying that the US administration has been exerting efforts over the past five days to refine the resolution to this fragile form in order to allow “fascist Israel” to carry on with its mission of destruction and terrorism against the people of Gaza.
Hamas stressed that the UNSC has a duty “to ensure the entry of humanitarian aid in sufficient quantities and to all areas of the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern areas.”
The UNSC passed on Friday a new resolution calling for expanding humanitarian aid access to Gaza but without the original insistence on an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.
The resolution which passed by a vote of 13-0, with the US and Russia abstaining, calls for “urgent steps” to immediately allow “safe, unhindered, and expanded” humanitarian access to Gaza. It also demands the parties to the conflict to allow and facilitate the use of all available routes to and throughout the entire Gaza Strip.
Ahead of the vote, the US vetoed an amendment proposed by Russia demanding an “immediate cessation of hostilities” in Gaza to ensure “uninterrupted and safe” access to humanitarian aid.
Russia’s representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, said that the United States included a dangerous element in the draft resolution that allows Israel to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip.
Since October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a destructive war on Gaza, resulting in 20,057 deaths and 53,320 injuries, mostly women and children, causing immense damage to infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.
