US Signals Support for UN Resolution to Boost Aid for Gaza
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A building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike near the Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza, on Dec. 20.
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The US signaled it could support a resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would increase aid flowing to Gaza after drawn out negotiations had threatened to defeat the measure.
“We have worked hard and diligently over the course of the past week with the Emiratis, with others, with Egypt, to come up with a resolution that we can support,” US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said late Thursday in New York. “And we do have that resolution now. We’re ready to vote on it.”