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Hamas strongly condemns new US veto which blocked the UN Security Council’s request for Immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. A senior Hamas official said this in
Hamas strongly condemns new US veto which blocked the UN Security Council’s request for Immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
A senior Hamas official said this in an official statement, saying the group is considering measures Washington is “unethical and inhumane.”
“The US obstruction of the ceasefire resolution is the occupation forces’ direct participation in massacring our people and committing new massacres and ethnic cleansing,” said Ezzat El-Reshik, a member of the cluster’s Politburo.
The United States once again vetoed a new UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, which was introduced by the United Arab Emirates and was approved by 97 member countries in just 24 hours.
The call was supported by 13 Council members, with the UK abstaining.
This is the second time since the beginning of the Gaza war that the United States has vetoed a resolution of this kind (it did so on October 18), thereby joining Israel in arguing that the ceasefire will help Hamas rearm and hold captive 138 hostages in the Strip .
United Arab Emirates representative Mohamed Abshahab lamented that the vote left “the Council remaining isolated and thus appearing disconnected from its own founding document.”
“What message are we sending to the Palestinians if we cannot unite and call for a stop to the incessant bombing of Gaza?” – he asked.
He was responded to by US Representative Robert Wood, who lamented that the resolution had been drafted “hastily” and as a result was “unbalanced and out of touch, failing to make an iota of difference on the ground.”
On October 18, the United States alone vetoed a similar resolution calling for a ceasefire introduced by Brazil; He then stated that the text did not mention Israel’s right to self-defense.
It is the Palestinian conflict that has caused the majority of vetoes that the United States has used in the Security Council, up to 45 times in its history, always in favor of its main ally in the world, Israel.
This Friday’s vote comes at the request of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres himself, who this week invoked an exceptional mechanism in the UN’s founding charter, Article 99, which allows him to demand Council intervention in cases of serious problems. threats to world peace and security.
Today, Guterres gave a dramatic presentation of the situation to the Council, recalling that Gaza is “staring into the abyss” and that “the eyes of the world and History are looking (toward the Council). It’s time to act.”
This afternoon’s vote was doomed to fail when the position of the United States was known, and even so, negotiations continued until the last minute and US attempts to replace the word “truce” with “truce” were unsuccessful.
Israeli attacks on Gaza have already killed more than 17,000 Palestinians and displaced 85% of Gazans’ 2 million residents, who suffer severe health and nutrition problems. (Reuters and EFE/Javier Ozatu)
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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