UN General Assembly calls emergency meeting to vote on Israel-Hamas cease-fire resolution
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday, December 11th, 2023. This is the exit. |
| 0:20.0 | Today, the latest from the UN amid Israel's offensive in Gaza, plus a look at |
| 0:27.9 | spiking suicide raids for elderly Americans, and Trump decides not to testify this week in one of his cases. |
| 0:37.0 | The UN General Assembly said yesterday that it has scheduled an emergency meeting for tomorrow to vote on a draft resolution calling for a ceasefire |
| 0:46.4 | in the Israel-Hamass war. That'll come days after a previous resolution from the UN Security |
| 0:52.1 | Council calling for an immediate |
| 0:53.9 | ceasefire was vetoed by the US. UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez said |
| 0:59.9 | that living conditions in Gaza are so dire with a shortage of food and other resources and |
| 1:06.1 | quote expect public order to completely break down soon unquote. |
| 1:11.1 | Israel is increasingly facing international outrage over its military |
| 1:15.2 | offensive in the wake of the October 7th Hamas attack. About 90% of Gaza's 2.3 million people have been displaced and nearly 18,000 Palestinians have been |
| 1:26.4 | killed according to the Gaza Health Ministry. More than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals |
| 1:32.4 | have been killed. |
| 1:33.6 | And Israel says Hamas still holds 117 hostages. |
| 1:37.8 | Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, |
| 1:39.9 | said yesterday that dozens of militants |
| 1:42.3 | have surrendered in recent days. |
| 1:44.0 | Hamas issued a statement saying Israel was detaining unarmed civilians and |
| 1:48.6 | surrounding them with weapons to give the appearance that militants resolve was fading. |
| 1:54.0 | You can stay up to date on the Israel-Hamass War with live updates on USA Today.com. |
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