The resolution calls for “an immediate, durable, and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities.”
It demands “the immediate, continuous, sufficient and unhindered provision” of essential goods and services to civilians throughout the Gaza Strip, including but not limited to water, food, medical supplies, fuel, and electricity, Xinhua reported.
It urges immediate, full, sustained, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access to Gaza.
It encourages the establishment of humanitarian corridors and other initiatives to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza and welcomes efforts in this regard.
The resolution demands fully complying with international law, particularly in regard to the protection of civilians and civilian objects, and enabling and facilitating humanitarian access for essential supplies and services to reach all civilians in need in Gaza.
It also calls for the rescinding of the order by the Zionist regime for Palestinian civilians and UN staff, as well as humanitarian and medical workers, to evacuate all areas in the Gaza Strip north of the Wadi Gaza and relocate to southern Gaza.
The resolution firmly rejects any attempts at the forced transfer of the Palestinian civilian population.
It calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all civilians who are being held prisoner, demanding their safety, well-being, and humane treatment in compliance with international law.
It also calls for respect and protection, consistent with international humanitarian law, of all civilian and humanitarian facilities, including hospitals and other medical facilities, as well as their means of transport and equipment, schools, places of worship, and UN facilities, as well as all humanitarian and medical personnel and journalists, media professionals and associated personnel, in armed conflict in the region.
It stresses the particularly grave impact that armed conflict has on women and children, as well as on other civilians who may have specific vulnerabilities, including persons with disabilities and older persons.
The resolution stresses the need to urgently establish a mechanism to ensure the protection of the Palestinian civilian population, in accordance with international law and the relevant UN resolutions, and further stresses the importance of a humanitarian notification mechanism to ensure the protection of UN facilities and all humanitarian installations and to ensure the unimpeded movement of aid convoys.
The resolution emphasizes the importance of preventing further destabilization and escalation of violence in the region, and in this regard calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint and on all those with influence on them to work toward this objective.
The resolution was adopted with 120 votes in favor, 14 votes against, and 45 abstentions.
The Israeli regime launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas Resistance group waged a surprise attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity. Hamas said that its operation came in response to the Israeli regime’s violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East al-Quds and growing Zionist settler violence. The Zionist regime has killed and injured thousands of Palestinians in its relentless airstrikes. It has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal sliver into a humanitarian crisis.
AMK/PR
