UN votes overwhelmingly for cease-fire in Gaza
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🗓️ 13 December 2023
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The United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of a cease-fire in Gaza.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday, December 13th, 2023. This is the |
| 0:19.5 | exit. Today, how the UN has again weighed in with a vote on the Israel-Hamas War. |
| 0:28.0 | Plus Ukrainian President Velodimir Zolenski presses U.S. lawmakers for for more support and how the government is |
| 0:34.8 | cracking down on homemade silencers for firearms. The UN General Assembly |
| 0:41.0 | voted overwhelmingly yesterday to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. |
| 0:45.5 | The vote included 153 in favor and 10 against, while 23 abstained. |
| 0:51.2 | The resolution is not binding but reflects growing opposition to Israel's |
| 0:55.4 | offensive in Gaza which has killed some 18,000 Palestinians while leaving much of the |
| 1:00.9 | territory destroyed and residents displaced. |
| 1:04.0 | Hamas killed around 1,200 people in Israel during an October 7th attack |
| 1:08.8 | and took hundreds of hostages, many of whom still remain captive. |
| 1:13.3 | The U.S. and Israel opposed yesterday's UN measure, and the U.S. vetoed a similar Security Council |
| 1:18.8 | resolution on Friday, the only member to vote against it. |
| 1:23.2 | Still at a fundraiser yesterday, President Joe Biden criticized the government of Israeli |
| 1:28.0 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for what Biden called, |
| 1:31.6 | indiscriminate bombing in Gaza. |
| 1:34.0 | He also said that Israel risked losing support |
| 1:36.8 | from other countries. |
| 1:38.3 | Amid increasing resistance to the war, |
| 1:40.1 | the Biden administration is sending |
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