The UN Security Council called for boosting humanitarian assistance for Gaza, but the UN chief said the way Israel is conducting its military operation is creating “massive obstacles” to aid distribution inside the battered enclave, Reuters reports.
After days of wrangling to avert a threatened US veto, the Security Council on Friday passed a resolution urging steps to allow safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access to Gaza and conditions for a sustainable cessation of fighting.
The resolution was toned down from earlier drafts that called for an immediate end to 11 weeks of war and diluting Israeli control over aid deliveries, clearing the way for the vote in which the United States, Israels main ally, abstained.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the way Israel is conducting its operation is creating massive obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian assistance in Gaza, where the United Nations says the aid available is just 10 percent of what is needed.
