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The United Nations General Assembly will vote on a resolution project on Thursday that requires an immediate, unconditional and permanent cease-fire in the war in Gaza after the United States vetoed a similar effort to the Security Council last week.
The 193-members’s general assembly is likely to adopt the text with overwhelming support, say diplomats, despite Israel’s lobbying this week against participation in what he called a counterproductive Charade book with politically motivated motivation “.
The resolutions of the General Assembly are not binding but bring weight as a reflection of the global view of the war. The previous requests of the body for the end of the war between Israel and the Palestinian activists in Hamas were ignored. Unlike the United Nations Security Council, no country has a veto at the General Assembly.
Thursday’s vote is also before a United Nations Conference next week which aims to invigorate an international thrust for a two -state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. The United States has urged countries not to attend.
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The United States has opposed another resolution of the United Nations Security Council calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, the release of hostages and the unlimited aid flow, despite the other members of the Council in favor of the resolution. The last resolution provided for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, but the United States argued that it was a performance process at the UN.
In a note observed by Reuters, the United States has warned that “countries that take anti-Israeli actions on conference heels will be considered acting in opposition to the interests of the United States foreign policy and could face diplomatic consequences”.
The United States has reached a draft United Nations Security Council resolution which also required an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” and unhindered access to Gaza, arguing that this would undermine the efforts led by the United States to negotiate a cease-fire.
The 14 other council countries voted in favor of the humanitarian crisis project seized the enclave of more than two million people, where the UN warns that famine is looming and that the aid has only stopped since Israel has lifted a blockage of 11 weeks last month.
“False and defamatory”: the UN ambassador of Israel
The draft resolution to be voted by the general assembly Thursday requires the release of the hostages held by Hamas, the return of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and the total withdrawal of the Israeli Gaza forces.
It requires unhindered access and “strongly condemns the use of civilians from civilians as a method of war and the illegal denial of humanitarian access and depriving civilians … objects essential to their survival, in particular the deliberately stacking of supply and access.”
“It is both false and defamatory,” wrote the ambassador of Israel, Danny Danon, in a letter to the UN member states, sent on Tuesday and seen by Reuters.
Danon described the resolution of the general assembly project as an “extremely imperfect and harmful text”, urging countries not to participate in what he said is a “farce” who undermines hostage negotiations and fails to condemn Hamas.
The question of whether the vote will have an effect on the result in Gaza is questionable, since the previous efforts have produced few results.
In October 2023, the General Assembly called for an immediate humanitarian break in Gaza with 120 votes in favor. In December 2023, 153 countries voted to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. And in December of last year, the body demanded – with 158 votes in favor – an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
The war in Gaza has raged since 2023 after Hamas activists killed 1,200 people in Israel during an attack on October 7 and brought back some 250 hostages to the enclave, according to Israeli deadlines. Many of those who were killed or captured were civilians.
Israel responded with a military campaign which killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza health authorities. They say that civilians have brought the weight of the attacks and that thousands of other bodies have been lost under rubble.
