11/20/2024–|Last updated: 11/20/202408:23 PM (Mecca time)
The United States used its veto power against a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, which the Palestinian resistance factions considered a partnership in the war of extermination against the Strip.
The draft resolution, which was supported by 14 countries and opposed only by the United States, called for “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire that must be respected by all parties,” and “the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.”
The project affirmed the demand that the parties comply with their obligations under international law with regard to the persons they detain, and that the civilian population in the Gaza Strip be granted immediate access to basic services and humanitarian assistance necessary for their survival.
At the same time, the draft resolution rejected any action that would lead to starvation of the Palestinians, and called for facilitating the full, rapid, safe and unhindered entry of humanitarian aid on a large scale into the Gaza Strip in all its regions, and delivering it to all Palestinian civilians who need it, including civilians in the north. Besieged Gazans, who are in dire need of immediate humanitarian relief, coordinated by the United Nations.
The draft resolution called on all parties to fully comply with international law, including international humanitarian law, in particular its provisions relating to the protection of civilians, especially women, children and persons hors de combat, as well as its provisions relating to the protection of civilian objects.
Convictions
For its part, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) condemned the United States’ use of its veto in the Security Council against the ceasefire resolution in Gaza.
Hamas said that the United States “proves once again that it is a direct partner in the aggression against our people and is responsible for the war of extermination.”
In the same context, the Islamic Jihad movement said that Washington’s use of its veto in the Security Council “confirms that it is waging a war of extermination against our people.”
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine also said, “Washington’s veto in the Security Council against the resolution to stop the aggression against Gaza reveals its direct involvement in the war of extermination.”
In turn, the Palestinian presidency condemned Washington’s use of the veto, considering that it encourages the occupation to continue its crimes against the Palestinian people.
American and Israeli anger
In a parallel context, Robert Wood, Deputy US Ambassador to Linda Greenfield, explained after the vote, “We were very clear during all the negotiations that we cannot support an unconditional ceasefire that does not allow the release of hostages,” considering that the Council would have directed this resolution to Hamas. “A dangerous message that there is no need to return to the negotiating table.”
The United States alone voted against the resolution, using its veto power as a permanent member of the Council to prevent its issuance.
Immediately before the vote, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, denounced the text, considering it “nothing but treason,” and said that he was counting on Washington to prevent the adoption of the resolution, which would mean “abandoning” the hostages.
Since the beginning of the war, the UN Security Council has tried to come up with a unified position, but it has clashed several times with an American veto, but also from Russia and China.
The few resolutions that the Americans allowed to be passed by abstaining from voting did not include a call for an unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
With Western American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving about 148,000 dead and wounded – most of them children and women – and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters. In the world.
Israel continues its massacres, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end them immediately and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
