The resolution was adopted in a 13-0 vote, with Russia and the United States abstaining.
The resolution requests the Secretary-General appoint a Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator, who will be responsible for "facilitating, monitoring and verifying the humanitarian nature of all relief consignments to Gaza provided through states that are not party to the conflict."
The resolution also calls for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors” throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days to enable humanitarian access, as well as calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.
21 December 2023, 22:36 GMT
During a meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia proposed an amendment to the draft resolution on Gaza to include a call for an immediate suspension of hostilities.
“The Russian Federation proposed the following oral amendment … ‘and in this regard calls for an urgent suspension of hostilities to allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access and for urgent steps toward a sustainable cessation of hostilities,’” Nebenzia said.