The Security Council today approved a toned-down bid to boost humanitarian aid to the Strip and called for urgent steps 'to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities' after a week of vote delays and intense negotiations to avoid a veto by the United States.Amid global outrage over a rising Gaza death toll in 11 weeks of war between and and a worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, the U.S. abstained to allow the 15-member council to adopt a resolution drafted by the United Arab Emirates.The remaining council members voted for the resolution except for which also abstained.
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