{"id":50558,"date":"2023-12-23T07:18:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T07:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=50558"},"modified":"2023-12-23T07:18:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T07:18:41","slug":"un-security-council-demands-urgent-aid-for-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=50558","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council demands &#8216;urgent&#8217; aid for Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Security Council on Friday demanded aid be rushed to Gaza &#8220;at scale&#8221; as the head of the World Health Organization warned of a looming famine in the besieged Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p>As Israeli bombs rained down on targets across Gaza, members of the UN&#8217;s top peacemaking council demanded &#8220;immediate, safe and unhindered&#8221; deliveries of life-saving aid.<\/p>\n<p>At Washington&#8217;s insistence, the UN Security Council avoided calling for a ceasefire that would stop the 11-week-old war, which began with Hamas&#8217;s bloody raids into Israel on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>After the UN vote, Israel vowed to continue its air and ground assault until the Palestinian militant group is &#8220;eliminated&#8221; and an estimated 129 hostages still being held in the territory are freed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel will continue the war in Gaza&#8221; said Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, insisting the war was legal and just.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s military said operations continued unabated in Gaza City, where its forces have been locked in street-to-street fighting with Hamas gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said Israel Defense Forces had destroyed an underground tunnel complex, &#8220;struck Hamas headquarters and eliminated terrorists&#8221;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/164613\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Security Council on Friday demanded aid be rushed to Gaza &#8220;at scale&#8221; as the head of the World Health Organization warned of a looming famine in the besieged Palestinian territory. As Israeli bombs rained down on targets across Gaza, members of the UN&#8217;s top peacemaking council demanded &#8220;immediate, safe and unhindered&#8221; deliveries of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50560,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50558\/revisions\/50560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}