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[19] [20] She further demanded of the Security Council to link the release of all hostages to any ceasefire, characterizing the resolution as "non-binding". [5] The US State Department noted that the US abstention did not indicate a change in US policy, and also stated that the US saw the ceasefire resolution as nonbinding. [21]
A ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas was also reached on 17 January 2025. The agreement was confirmed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office shortly after midnight on 18 January local time. [20] It was set to go into effect 19 January 2025. [20] On 19 January, the ceasefire was set to go into effect at 8:30 A.M. local time.
The US resolution was "deliberately misleading" and designed to throw "a bone" to American voters demanding Biden call for a ceasefire. Did the U.S. resolution call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza?
On 4 March, US vice president Kamala Harris called for "an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks" because of "the immense scale of suffering in Gaza". She said Israel must let more aid into Gaza and called on Hamas to accept a ceasefire deal involving the release of hostages. [ 79 ]
The Lebanese army did not comment on the incident. [21] On 28 November, Lebanon accused Israel of violating the ceasefire with airstrikes and shelling on several villages, resulting in two injuries from tank fire. [50] The Israeli airstrike targeted Hezbollah militants north of the Litani River, an area outside the ceasefire agreement. [61]
Letters dated 22 December 1979 from the US to the President of the Security Council US and Iran hostage question Soviet Union: 7-9 January 1980: S/13729: S/PV.2190: Letter dated 3 January 1980 from 52 countries to the President of the Security Council (Soviet–Afghan War) Soviet Union: 16 March 1979: S/13162: S/PV.2129
Artists4Ceasefire is a collective of actors, filmmakers, and other artists calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire during the Israel–Hamas war in Gaza, the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians, and the release of all hostages. [1] [2] [3] The collective was started on October 20, 2023, two weeks after the October 7 attacks. [4]
On October 25, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for a ceasefire, during a speech in which he stated that the attacks by Hamas "did not happen in a vacuum" and needed to be understood in the context of 56 years of Israel's "suffocating occupation" of Palestinians, further stating that "the grievances of the Palestinian ...