Israel-Gaza latest news: UN warns half of Gazans starving, as Israeli hostage confirmed dead - BBC News

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Israel-Gaza latest news: UN warns half of Gazans starving, as Israeli hostage confirmed dead - BBC News
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The UN warns that half the population of Gaza is starving and nine out of ten people there can't eat every day - as Israeli bombardment of the territory continues

A hospital boss in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, says his team has "lost control" over the numbers of dead and wounded arriving at the facility

The city is surrounded by Israeli tanks on two sides; the Israeli military says it's fighting from house to house

The death of an Israeli hostage - Sahar Baruch, 25 - has been confirmed by his kibbutz and a hostages' group, following reports of a failed Israeli rescue operation

On Friday, the US blocked a resolution at the UN Security Council calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, arguing this would be dangerous and unrealistic

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Finally found it.

release of all hostages, as well as ensuring humanitarian access.

Means that both are guaranteed to happen. But only one party is part of the UN and bound to the decision.

That is the reason for the veto IMO.

Finally found it.

I would hope so, it's literally the 2nd paragraph 🤣

Means that both are guaranteed to happen. But only one party is part of the UN and bound to the decision.

That's why it's the security council. They could actually enforce it. But it's a shame getting the hostages out in exchange for stopping the mass murder is not enough motivation.

It would be simple. Hamas could surrender and lay down their weapons. Release the hostages. But, no. They still fire rockets at Israel, they still fight house to house.

Yawn. Anyway, I only commented to inform you that the hostages were included in the vetoed resolution.

But they were actually not as I explained.

I think you are being ridiculous. If I understand your point, according to you the only way they could be included is if Hamas was a member of the UN. This is not a realistic bar.

The hostages were literally part of the agreement. They were part of the last one too, and many were released. Suggesting they weren't included here is borderline delusional

You make a resolution only binding one party for a cease-fire, while there is no contingency that hostages be released I would veto it too. If there was a contingency then we would see what has previously happened.

Israel could also simply stop trying to occupy and colonize Palestinian soil but they sure as fuck won't.

In 2005 Isreal actually physically removed every Israeli from Gaza.

Then proceeded to blockade them and kill their economy.

Not quite, Gaza elected Hamas in 2006 and started collecting materials. Then Israel blockaded some goods.

The blockade started in 2005. 3 months before Hamas is elected. Also "started collecting materials" what do you expect a government with a genocidal explicitly hostile neighbor to do?

How magnanimous of them to have the people leave who shouldn't of been there in the first place. Then proceed to screw over their own people they brought back after the fact.