UN Security Council votes to send more aid to Gaza, US and Russia abstain

Applying additional pressure to Israel, the United Nations Security Council voted Friday to approve a resolution that demands a humanitarian pause in the Israel-Hamas war. 

Thirteen nations voted in favor of the resolution, with Russia and the U.S. abstaining.

The resolution calls for "urgent steps to immediately allow safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access and to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities."

"Today, this council made clear that all hostages must be released immediately and unconditionally and that humanitarian groups must be able to access hostages, including for medical visits," U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said after the vote was cast. 

The vote on the resolution was scheduled earlier this week, but was delayed.