With the United Nations Security Council deadlocked on the war between Israel and Hamas, the General Assembly prepared to vote Friday on a non-binding resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce.”
Jordan wants the assembly to vote at 3:00 pm , calling the situation urgent, even though some 100 countries were still due to speak in a debate that began Thursday morning. The Jordanian draft, which needs the support of two-thirds of the member states that are present and voting in order to pass, calls for “an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities.”Israel has bombarded Gaza heavily since Hamas gunmen stormed across the border on October 7, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping over 220 others, according to Israeli officials.
The draft written by Jordan and co-sponsored by around 40 other countries centers largely on the dire humanitarian situation in sealed-off Gaza as Israel presses on with its bombardment.