The UN Security Council has finally adopted a resolution calling for urgent humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout Gaza to ensure essential aid reaches the region. This move comes after a month-long deadlock in the Council amid the Israel-Palestine war, stated an agency report. According to the report, the resolution, backed by 12 votes with three abstentions, urges the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas and other organisations, particularly children while emphasising the need for uninterrupted humanitarian access. It aims to enable UN agencies to deliver crucial goods and services following international humanitarian laws.

The United Kingdom, United States and Russia abstained from voting for the Malta-drafted resolution which calls for "urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip for a sufficient number of days to enable, consistent with international humanitarian law, the full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access" for UN's humanitarian agencies and their implementing partners to facilitate the unhindered provision of essential goods and services throughout Gaza.