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US negotiated for days to weaken the language of the resolution to ensure there is no call for an immediate ceasefire.

UN Secretary General António Guterres has paid tribute to the United Nations staff killed in the Gaza war. "136 of our colleagues in Gaza have been killed in 75 days – something we have never seen in UN history," Guterres wrote on the online platform X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday. "Most of our staff have been forced from their homes." "I pay tribute to them & the thousands of aid workers risking their lives as they support civilians in Gaza," Guterres wrote. In another post, Guterres once aga

The head of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Thomas White, criticized a new Israeli evacuation order for central Gaza Saturday which will impact more than 150,000 people, many already displaced. 

While Palestine’s envoy to the UN says that the Security Council resolution is a step in the right direction, others have called it “toothless” and “utterly meaningless” to civilians in Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel continues its military raids into Jenin.

White House says the two leaders discussed Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its ‘objectives and phasing’.