UNITED NATIONS — The United States vetoed a United Nations decision Friday backed by the overwhelming majority of Security Council members and lots of different nations demanding a direct humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza.
The vote within the 15-member council was 13-1 with the United Kingdom abstaining.
U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood criticized the council after the vote for its failure to sentence Hamas’ assaults in Israel and to acknowledge Israel’s proper to defend itself. He declared that halting navy motion would permit Hamas to proceed to rule and “only plant the seeds for the next war.”
The international ministers of Saudi Arabia and different main Arab nations and Turkey have been in Washington on Friday on a uncommon joint mission to press the Biden administration to drop its opposition to a cease-fire. They have been scheduled to fulfill with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday afternoon.
“If people are not seeing it here, we are seeing it,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi mentioned, including: “We’re seeing the challenges that we are are facing talking to our people. They are all saying we’re doing nothing. Because despite all our efforts, Israel is continuing these massacres.”
Israel’s greater than two-month navy marketing campaign has killed greater than 17,400 individuals in Gaza – 70% of them ladies and youngsters – and wounded greater than 46,000, in keeping with the Palestinian territory’s Health Ministry, which says many others are trapped beneath rubble. The ministry doesn’t differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths.
