In October 2023, India had abstained from voting on the resolution.
India voted in favour of the United Nation’s resolution for immediate ceasefire in Gaza along with nearly 80 percent of the United Nation General Assembly members. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj, said that there is an enormous humanitarian crisis and a large-scale loss of human lives, reports India Today.
While 23 other countries abstained from voting on the resolution, 153 countries voted in favour and 10 countries against it. The resolution was introduced in the UN Assembly by Egypt, at an Emergency Special Session in the United Nations. The countries who supported the resolution were Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait among several others. Palestine authority welcomed the decision.
Before the UN vote, Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan said, “A ceasefire means one thing and one thing only—ensuring the survival of Hamas, ensuring the survival of genocidal terrorists committed to the annihilation of Israel and Jews.”
On Oct. 7 Hamas and Palestine attacked Israel and killed 1,200 people, 33 children. Several others were also injured in this terror attack. According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health’s latest data, 18,205 Palestinians have been killed while 49,645 are injured.
“The price of defeating Hamas cannot be the continuous suffering of all Palestinian civilians,” the leaders of Canada, Australia and New Zealand said separately in a joint statement calling for a ceasefire.
