UNITED NATIONS (AN) — The world body's most powerful arm, with U.S. consent, sent a message to Israel and Hamas that they must take "urgent steps" to immediately allow humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza.
After a week of negotiating the 15-nation U.N. Security Council approved the watered-down resolution on Friday – it omitted an earlier demand for "an urgent suspension of hostilities" between Israel and Hamas – in a 13-0 vote. The United States and Russia, two of the council's five permanent members with veto power, abstained.
