America on Friday abstained from a vote on a United Nations Safety Council decision in help of an indefinite pause in preventing to permit the movement of humanitarian help to Gaza. The vote got here after a sequence of delays, with Washington — Israel’s stalwart ally — negotiating language that it might not really feel compelled to veto. Over 1 / 4 of the Gazan inhabitants face “catastrophic starvation and hunger,” in response to a latest report.