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Just more than 10 weeks into the conflict, the number of people killed in Gaza is nearing 1% of the territory's pre-war population. The rising death toll has fueled calls for Israel to shift strategy.

The U.N. Security Council on Thursday again delayed a vote on a watered-down resolution to deliver desperately needed aid to Gaza -- a revision backed by the United States, while other countries support a stronger text that would include the now eliminated call for the urgent suspension of hostilities between Israel and Hamas.

Just more than 10 weeks into the conflict, the number of people killed in Gaza is nearing 1% of the territory's pre-war population. The rising death toll has fueled calls for Israel to shift strategy.

The UN Security Council today again delayed a vote on a watered-down resolution to deliver desperately needed aid to Gaza — a revision backed by the United...

The UN Security Council on Thursday again delayed a vote on a watered-down resolution to deliver desperately needed aid to Gaza, a revision backed by the United States while other countries support a stronger text that would include the now-eliminated call for the urgent suspension of hostilities between Israel and Hamas.

The revised text was negotiated during a week and a half of high-level diplomacy by the United States, the United Arab Emirates on behalf of Arab nations and others.

The U.N. Security Council has adopted a watered-down resolution calling for immediate speeded-up aid deliveries to hungry and desperate civilians in Gaza – but without the original call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.

Article: [HumanRights] STARVATION and an ACTION call for the ICRC - This is the highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area or country.... at least one in four households (more than half a million people) is facing catastrophic conditions - IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe).

The vote in the 15-member council was 13-0 with the United States and Russia abstaining.

According to a report released Thursday by 23 U.N. and humanitarian agencies, Gaza's entire 2.2 million population is in a food crisis or worse.