The 193-member United Nations General Assembly will vote on a draft resolution requesting an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian terrorists Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
The decision comes after the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council proposal for an emergency humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza on Friday.
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution in October, with 121 votes in favor, 14 against, and 44 abstentions, calling for "an immediate, durable, and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities."
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This comes at a time when Israel sharply increased strikes on the Gaza Strip, pounding the length of the Palestinian enclave and killing hundreds in a new, expanded phase of the war that Washington said veered from Israeli promises to do more to protect civilians.
The Israeli military said on Friday it had struck more than 450 targets in Gaza from land, sea, and air over the past 24 hours - the most since a truce with Hamas collapsed last week and about double the daily figures typically reported since.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres meanwhile declared there was no effective protection of civilians in Gaza and nowhere in Gaza was safe, hours before the U.N. Security Council was set to vote on a demand for a humanitarian ceasefire there.
Gaza's health ministry confirmed 350 deaths on Thursday, while the dead toll from Israel's campaign in Gaza rose to 17,487 on Friday, with thousands more missing and thought buried under debris. More strikes were reported in Khan Younis in the south, the Nusseirat camp in the middle, and Gaza City in the north on Friday morning.
