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UN Security Council fails to ease suffering in Gaza

Members of the Security Council vote on a resolution regarding the situation in Israel and Gaza at a council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, at the United Nations, Oct. 18, 2023, in New York.[VOA}

As the death toll and suffering mounts for Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. Security Council remained blocked Wednesday from trying to bring any relief to them, while the Israeli and Palestinian envoys traded accusations.

"The pace of death, of suffering, of destruction, of breaches of international law cannot be exaggerated," U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told an emergency Security Council meeting from Egypt, where he is trying to negotiate aid access into Gaza.

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