UNITED NATIONS
\nUnited States: The UN General Assembly will meet on Tuesday to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, officials and diplomats said Sunday, after the United States last week vetoed a Security Council resolution for a ceasefire.
\nA special meeting of the General Assembly has been called for Tuesday afternoon by the representatives for Egypt and Mauritania \u201cin their respective capacities as Chair of the Arab Group and Chair of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation,\u201d a spokesperson for the Assembly president said.
\nAccording to diplomatic sources, the General Assembly, whose resolutions are nonbinding, could vote on a text for a ceasefire resolution at the meeting.
\nA draft of the text seen by AFP closely follows the language of Friday\u2019s vetoed Security Council resolution, \u201cexpressing grave concern over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.\u201d
\nIt calls for \u201can immediate humanitarian ceasefire\u201d as well as the \u201cimmediate and unconditional release of all hostages.\u201d
\nOn Friday the United States blocked the ceasefire resolution which came after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called an emergency meeting of the Security Council, deploying the rarely-used Article 99 of the UN Charter to bring to the council\u2019s attention \u201cany matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.\u201d
\nThe body\u2019s \u201cauthority and credibility\u201d have been \u201cseverely undermined\u201d by its delayed response to the war, Guterres said afterward.
\nAt the end of October, in another of its resolutions, the General Assembly called for an \u201cimmediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities\u201d between Israel and Hamas.
\nTwo weeks later the Security Council broke its silence on the war for the first time by calling for \u201cextended pauses and humanitarian corridors\u201d \u2014 using less clear language than a ceasefire or a truce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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