U.N. Security Council moves towards a vote to demand aid

Egypt’s current Permanent Representative of Egypt to the U.N. Osama Abdekhalek, Russian Ambassador to the U.N. Vassily Nebenzia, Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad H. Mansour, and Chinese Ambassador to the U.N. Zhang Jun interact on the day of a meeting of Members of the United Nations Security Council for voting on a proposal to demand that Israel and Hamas allow aid access to the Gaza Strip via land, sea and air routes and set up U.N. monitoring of the humanitarian assistance delivered during a meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., December 19, 2023. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton