Humanitarian cease-fire needed to end 'collective punishment' of civilians in Gaza

How many civilian deaths will it take till the international community agrees to take the concerted actions necessary to prevent the ongoing human tragedy in Gaza from escalating further?

The United Nations adopted a nonbinding resolution that its General Assembly approved on Friday, calling for a "humanitarian truce" between Israel and Palestine.

The UN's first response to the Israel-Palestine conflict comes as the crisis in Gaza has entered its fourth week. Israeli strikes have since killed more than 8,000 people in Gaza, mainly civilians, with many of them being children. International charity Save the Children said on Sunday that the number of children killed in Gaza since Oct 7, which it put at around 3,200, has exceeded the number of children killed in armed conflicts every year globally since 2019.