The UN has voted in favour of a resolution granting more aid into Gaza, with 13 votes, after a week of vote delays and intense negotiations to avoid a veto by the United States.
The adopted resolution "calls for urgent steps to immediately allow safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access and to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities." The initial draft had called for "an urgent and sustainable cessation of hostilities" to allow aid access.
"By signing off on this, the council would essentially be giving the Israeli armed forces complete freedom of movement for further clearing of the Gaza Strip," Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the council before the vote.
The vote however, does not yet call for a complete ceasefire, instead, saying that "conditions should be created" for one.