...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...-ruled enclave, and for the immediate release of hostages kidnapped during the October 7 atrocities in southern Israel.
The full text of the resolution is here.
The vote was 13 in favor and zero against. Both the United States and Russia abstained.
Before the vote, the US blocked a Russian amendment demanding "an urgent and sustainable cessation of hostilities." This went further than the resolution itself, which "calls for urgent steps to immediately allow safe, unhindered and expanded humanitarian access and to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities."
This is the first time since the war that the council has passed a resolution including language regarding a "cessation of hostilities," but it still stops short of demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire, which both the US and Israel oppose.
Earlier texts of the resolution, which was negotiated throughout the week, had demanded an immediate ceasefire and proposed a new UN mechanism for aid entering Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
without Israeli inspection.
The exclusion of these demands from the final text was among the factors that led the US not to utilize its veto.