UNGA set to vote on Jordan 'humanitarian truce' draft
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The General Assembly was set to vote Friday on a non-binding resolution asking for a "humanitarian truce".
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Smoke and debris ascending over the northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli strike on October 23, 2023 (AFP)
The General Assembly was set to vote Friday on a non-binding resolution asking for a "humanitarian truce".
Jordan wants the assembly to vote at 3:00 pm (1900 GMT), citing the urgency of the situation, despite the fact that more than 100 nations were still scheduled to participate in a discussion that began Thursday morning.
The remainder of the 193-member assembly agreed to the timeline after the split Security Council failed to agree on four draft resolutions in two weeks.
"Israel" had already rejected Jordan's draft resolution in the name of 22 Arab countries, continuing its relentless aggression on Gaza.
The resolution calls for "an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities."
The previous draft called for an "immediate ceasefire" and "unhindered humanitarian access" to Gaza.
On his part, the Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan claimed the resolution belonged in the "dustbin of history."
In a similar context, the representative of the Hamas delegation in Moscow, Abu Hamid, told Kommersant that the Palestinian Resistance does not intend to release captives until an agreement to a ceasefire is reached.
According to Abu Hamid, hundreds of citizens and dozens of militants from various Palestinian factions entered the territories occupied in 1948, and after the fall of the Israeli Gaza Division, they captured dozens of people, most of them civilians, and we need time to find them in the Gaza Strip and then release them, stressing that calm is required to ensure that.
Israeli bombing has killed 50 of the captives so far, he noted.
During the meeting, Hamas expressed strong appreciation for the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the diplomatic efforts put forth by Russia regarding the war on Gaza.
Hamas discussed the need to halt the "crimes of Israel supported by the West" and reiterated their right to resist the occupation through various means.
This comes after the United Nations Security Council turned down a resolution drafted by the United States concerning the war on Gaza due to Russia and China exercising their veto power against it.
