The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly voted to demand an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in Gaza and the immediate release of all hostages.
The truce demand in the resolution - adopted with 158 votes in favour - is an escalation by the 193-member body, which in October of last year called for and then - two months later - demanded an immediate humanitarian truce in the territory.
UN General Assembly resolutions are not binding but carry political weight, reflecting a global view on the war.
The United States, Israel and seven other countries voted against the move, while 13 nations abstained.
The assembly also threw its support behind the UN Palestinian relief agency UNRWA, adopting a second resolution - with 159 votes in favour - to deplore a new law that will ban its operations in Israel from next month.
It demanded that Israel respect UNRWA's mandate and "enable its operations to proceed without impediment or restriction".
The US, Israel and seven other countries voted against the move, while 11 countries abstained.
Israeli strikes kill at least 38 people in Gaza - medics
Israeli air attacks across Gaza have killed at least 38 Palestinians, most of them in a strike on a house in Beit Lahiya on the northern edge of the enclave, medics said.
At least 22 people died in the Beit Lahiya attack, including women and children, according to health officials. Relatives listed the names of the dead on social media.
More than 30 people were living in the multi-storey building before it was struck, and several family members remain missing as rescue operations continue, the Palestinian WAFA news agency said.
The Israeli military said that it had carried out a strike targeting Hamas militants near the Kamal Adwan Hospital, which is located between Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, towns on the northern fringe of Gaza under Israeli siege for two months.
It said it was continuing to examine the incident but described the number of fatalities reported by Palestinian medics and media as "inaccurate" and at odds with the army's information.
In nearby Beit Hanoun, also part of the area under siege, medics said an Israeli airstrike killed and wounded several people, without giving an exact toll.
Rescue workers said that several people were trapped under rubble.
Earlier, at least seven Palestinians died and several were wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, according to medics.
The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service and medics said nine other people were killed in three separate Israeli airstrikes on two houses and a crowd in Gaza City, including journalist Eman Al-Shanti, her husband, and three of their children.
Ms Al-Shanti is the 193rd journalist to be killed by Israel since the start of the war in October 2023, the Palestinian Union of Journalists said.
Elsewhere, the Israeli military said that two rockets had been fired from central Gaza into Israel but fell in open areas and caused no injuries.
The salvo demonstrated the ability of militants in the territory to continue to stage attacks despite 14 months of devastating Israeli aerial and ground offensives.
Citing rocket launches from the area, Israel's military ordered residents in the Al-Maghazi camp in central Gaza to leave.
It urged them to head towards a humanitarian-designated zone near the Mediterranean Sea coast.
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Palestinian and UN officials said there are no safe areas in the widely devastated territory.
Israel said that harm to civilians is a consequence of the militants hiding among them, an accusation that Hamas denies.
Fighting has focused on the densely urbanised north, where Israeli armoured forces have been operating in Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and Jabalia since October.
Israel said it is fighting to prevent Hamas militants regrouping and resuming attacks from those areas.
Palestinian officials and residents accuse Israel of seeking to depopulate the area to create a buffer zone along the northern end of the coastal territory, which Israel denies.
