US VETORES Non-Security Consulting Gaza Gaza Request of ceasefire for the sixth time | News Israel-Palestine Conflict

The United States has opposed a crucial resolution of the United Nations Security Council to demand a cease-fire in Gaza, while Israel has widened its land burnt over the city of Gaza.

The resolution, approved by 14 of the 15 members of the Council on Thursday, called for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire to Gaza respected by all parties”, the release of all the captives held by Hamas and other groups, and a lifting of humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Written by the 10 elected members of the Council, the resolution went further than the previous iterations to highlight what diplomats called the “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in Gaza after almost two years of war in the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 65,141 people, according to Palestinian health officials.

As expected, the United States has vetoed the effort. “The US opposition to this resolution will not surprise,” said Morgan Ortagus, an American special assistant envoy in the Middle East.

“He does not condemn Hamas or does not recognize the right of Israel to defend himself, and this wrongly legitimizes false stories benefiting in Hamas, which unfortunately found the currency in this council.”

Ortagus added that the official declaration of the famine of the classification of the integrated food security phase not sustained in the enclave last month had used the “defective methodology”, welcoming the work of the highly militarized GHF centers, where so many Palestinians have been killed while looking for food for their families.

After the vote, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour said that the American veto was “deeply regrettable” and had prevented “the Security Council from playing its legitimate role in the face of these atrocities and protecting civilians in front of the genocide”

“Unfortunately, the council remains silent at a significant cost for its credibility and its authority,” added Mansour. “This shows that when it comes to atrocity crimes, the use of the veto should simply not be allowed.”

The Algerian ambassador to the UN Amar Bendjama also had strong words. “The Palestinian brothers, the Palestinian sisters, forgive us,” he said.

“Forgive us, because the world talks about rights, but denies them to the Palestinians. Forgive us because our efforts, our sincere efforts, broke against this wall of rejection. ”

The war in Gaza had noted, killed more than 18,000 children and 12,000 women, killed more than 1,400 doctors and nurses and more than 250 journalists. Israel, he added, was “to immunity”, not because of international law, but because of the “bias of the international system”.

Meanwhile, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said that Israel needed “no justification” for his war against Gaza. He thanked Ortagus for exercising American veto.

Reporting from New York, James Bays, diplomatic editor of Al Jazeera, said that the vote was a “dark” moment on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, with many countries defending “multilateral diplomacy”, while the United States insisted for having a “vision in America in the world”.

“”[It is] Not an ardent defender … of the United Nations, reducing a large part of the humanitarian financing of this organization, “he said, noting how it brought the organization to one of the lowest points of its 80th anniversary.

‘Lost generation’

With its offensive on the ground on Gaza City, which started on Tuesday, Israel seems determined to kill the hopes of a cease-fire.

The Israeli army, which has repeatedly declared that it definitively wanted to crush Hamas, has not given a specific calendar for the offensive, although there are indications that it could take months.

On Tuesday, a team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council concluded that Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza, with the intention of “destroying” the Palestinians.

Before Thursday’s vote, Danon of Israel had posted on X that the resolution “would not release the hostages or will bring security”.

Israel, he said, “would continue to fight Hamas and protect its citizens, even if the Security Council prefers to turn a blind eye to terror”.

The Danish ambassador to the UN Christina Markus Lassen underlined the gravity of the artificial famine of Israel. “Desperate mothers are forced to boil leaves to feed their children, the fathers are looking for the subsistence of the rubble,” she said.

“People are killed as they try to survive food.