The United Nations Security Council has voted for "urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors" throughout Gaza.
The resolution, which focuses on the protection of children in the conflict, passed with 12 votes in favour and zero votes against.
The Russian Federation, the US and the UK abstained.
The text stops short of calling for a ceasefire, which the US does not support.
But it does call for humanitarian pauses "for a sufficient number of days" to "enable…the full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access for United Nations agencies" and their partners.
It is unclear how many days UN agencies would deem sufficient.
"It needs to be long enough for us to able to mobilise the resources, once we have enough fuel, for people to get what they need," a spokesperson for the Secretary General told reporters ahead of the vote.
An amendment put forward by Russia moments before this afternoon's vote, which called for an "immediate durable and sustained humanitarian truce, leading to a cessation of hostilities," was not adopted.
The adopted resolution also called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, especially children, held by Hamas and other groups and rejects the "forced displacement of the civilian population, including children, in violation of international law".
It called on all parties to the conflict to "refrain from depriving the civilian population in the Gaza Strip of basic services and humanitarian assistance indispensable to their survival".
The resolution, which was drafted by Malta and other non-permanent Council members, also called for facilitating the medical evacuation of sick or injured children and their care givers.
The vote comes 40 days after the attacks by Hamas killed an estimated 1200 Israeli citizens on 7 October.
Some 240 Israelis are thought to have been taken hostage by Hamas.
More than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory military campaign, including more than 4,600 children, according to figure from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.
Today’s resolution is the fifth attempt by the UN’s most senior decision-making body to agree a form of words in response to the hostilities.
Four previous drafts were defeated. Russia, China and the US have all used their vetoes to block Council action.
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Earlier, the UN warned that 70 percent of people in Gaza would not have clean water by the end of today.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN’s Palestinian Refugees Agency, said the entire UNRWA operation was "on the verge of collapse".
In remarks delivered to reporters in Geneva, the UN’s Humanitarian Affairs chief Martin Griffiths said the "carnage in Gaza reaches new levels of horror every day."
"The world continues to watch in shock as hospitals come under fire, premature babies die, and an entire population is deprived of the basic means of survival," he said.
"This cannot be allowed to continue," Mr Griffiths added.
