suspension of hostilities

It was a temporary suspension of hostilities, not a long-term settlement of differences.

On Dec. 22, the council adopted a watered-down resolution calling for immediately speeding aid deliveries to hungry and desperate civilians in Gaza, but without the original plea for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.

The United States had won the removal of a tougher call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.

The United States won the removal of a tougher call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.

It did so after negotiating intensely to change language on the suspension of hostilities and mechanisms to monitor and speed up aid delivery.