By Elham Asad Buaras
London, (The Muslim News): The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a draft resolution urging member states to take all necessary measures to ensure Israel complies with international law, as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deepens.
The resolution, submitted by Spain and co-sponsored by more than 30 countries, was passed with overwhelming support: 149 nations voted in favour, 12 against, and 19 abstained. It emphasises the urgent need for accountability to ensure Israel upholds its legal obligations under international law and draws attention to the worsening humanitarian conditions in Palestine.
“As a matter of urgency, the international community must launch a robust message, a message with regard to the situation in Gaza, and we strongly encourage all member states to vote in favour of this draft resolution,” said Spain’s UN envoy Héctor Gómez Hernández before the vote.
Hernández said the text reaffirms commitment to a two-state solution while “firmly rejecting any attempts at demographic change in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.” He added that the resolution “demands an immediate halt to settlement construction, expansion, land confiscation, home demolitions, forced evictions, and settler violence in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”
ISRAELI STRIKES KILL DOZENS MORE AMID AID CRISIS
As the international community voiced its concerns, Israeli forces carried out a series of deadly attacks across Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 57 Palestinians, many of whom were civilians seeking humanitarian aid.
In the central Gaza Strip, an Israeli drone strike on Al-Maghazi refugee camp killed five Palestinians and injured others. Separately, Israeli shelling targeted a group of civilians gathered near an aid distribution point in Rafah, killing 14 people and injuring dozens, according to medical sources.
Five more civilians were reportedly shot dead while waiting for aid northwest of Gaza City.
Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza reported that Israeli forces killed 13 people and injured 200 more near another aid site in the Netzarim Corridor. Meanwhile, in Khan Younis, 12 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to a source at Nasser Medical Complex.
Further north, in the al-Maqousi area of Gaza City, four Palestinians were killed and several injured in a drone strike. Two more were killed in an airstrike on the Bir al-Naaja area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp.
In the Batn al-Samin area of Khan Younis, two Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling, bringing Thursday’s death toll even higher.
MASS EVACUATION ORDERS AND GROWING DEATH TOLL
Israeli forces also dropped leaflets over the Zarqa area, south of Jabalia, ordering the evacuation of thousands of displaced civilians from the Halawa displacement camp and a nearby school, according to an Anadolu correspondent.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 103 bodies were brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, with 427 others injured. This brings the total number of Palestinians killed since October 2023 to at least 55,207, with 127,821 injured.o
“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” the ministry added.
[Photo: Palestinian civilians began fleeing toward safer areas after the Israeli army dropped leaflets via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) urging evacuation of Palestinians living in the Halawa Camp, located in the Zarka area south of Jabalia, on June 12, 2025. Photojournalist: Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arin/AA]
