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The U.S. abstained from the UN Security Council's vote on the measure, which calls for "urgent steps" toward "creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities."

The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution calling for speeding up aid deliveries to civilians in Gaza but without the original call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities.”

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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

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 US Special Representative Thomas West, in a meeting with Indrika Ratwatte, UNAMA Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator, tal

The resolution was stripped of a call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas. Both the US and Russia abstained from voting.

After delays, the U.N. Security Council adopts a watered-down resolution calling for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to civilians in Gaza.

For Syrians living near the Turkish border, recent violence has made an already precarious humanitarian situation devastating.

Rather than watered down, U.S. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield described the resolution as "strong" and said it "is fully supported by the Arab group that provides them what they feel is needed to get humanitarian assistance on the ground."