The United States and Israel were among the few voices to vote against the non-binding resolution calling for an end to the fighting.

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling for a resolution humanitarian ceasefire in the war-torn Gaza Strip.

Tuesday’s resolution was adopted with 153 votes in favor, 23 abstentions and 10 countries against, including Israel and the United States. Although the resolution is non-binding, it serves as an indicator of global opinion.

“We thank everyone who supported the draft resolution, which was just adopted by a large majority,” Saudi Arabia’s UN Ambassador Abdulaziz Alwasil said after the vote. “This reflects the international position to call for enforcement of this resolution.”

The vote comes as international pressure mounts on Israel to end its months-long assault on Gaza that has killed more than 18,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. More than 80 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents have also been displaced.

Relentless airstrikes and an Israeli siege have created humanitarian conditions in Palestinian territory that U.N. officials fear called “Hell of Earth”. The Israeli military offensive was severely limited Access to foodFuel, water and electricity to the Gaza Strip.

Tuesday’s vote follows a failed United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution on Friday that also called for a humanitarian ceasefire.

The USA vetoed the proposal, cast the only dissenting vote and thus made its adoption a failure. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom abstained from voting. Unlike UN General Assembly votes, UN Security Council resolutions have the power to be binding.

After the failed United Nations Security Council resolution on Friday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took over the decision extraordinary step to invoke Article 99 of the UN Charter, which allows him to warn of serious threats to world peace. The last use took place in 1971.

But the adoption of the non-binding UNGA resolution on Tuesday also met with resistance in the USA.

Both the United States and Austria introduced amendments to the resolution to condemn the deadly October 7 Hamas attack that marked the start of the current conflict.

Al Jazeera correspondent Kristen Saloomey said Arab countries saw these changes as an attempt to politicize the vote. Both failed to pass.

“What we are hearing from many countries is that the credibility of the United Nations is at stake here and that respect for international law requires respect for humanitarian efforts,” Saloomey said.

Egyptian UN Ambassador Osama Abdelkhalek called the draft resolution “balanced and neutral” and noted that it called for the protection of civilians on both sides Release all prisoners.

Israel’s envoy Gilad Erdan railed against calls for a ceasefire, calling the UN a “moral blight” on humanity.

“Why don’t you hold rapists and child murderers accountable?” he asked in a speech before the vote. “It’s time to put the blame where it belongs: on the shoulders of the Hamas monsters.”

US President Joe Biden’s administration has strongly supported Israel’s military campaign, arguing that it must be allowed to crush Hamas.

But while Israeli forces are leveling entire neighborhoods, including schools and hospitals, the United States increasingly came into conflict with international opinion.

However, in his remarks on Tuesday, Biden expressed his opinion sharpened his criticism The US ally said Israel was losing international support because of the “indiscriminate bombing” in the Gaza Strip.

The United States, which has sharply criticized Russia for similar actions in Ukraine, has been accused of using such an operation Double standards on the subject of human rights.

“With each step the U.S. appears more isolated from mainstream U.N. opinion,” Richard Gowan, U.N. director at the International Crisis Group, an NGO, told Reuters.