The United States has vetoed a resolution of the United Nations Security Council (USC) which called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent cease-fire in Gaza, because the Israeli strikes across the enclave have killed nearly 100 Palestinians in the last 24 hours in the middle of a blocking of paralyzing aid.
The United States was the only country to vote against the measure on Wednesday, while the other 14 members of the Council voted in favor.
The resolution also called for the release of Israeli captives held in Gaza, but Washington said it was a “non-beginner” because the ceasefire demand is not directly linked to the release of captives.
In remarks before the start of the vote, the acting American ambassador Dorothy Shea made the opposition of his country to the resolution, advanced by 10 countries of the council of 15 members, painfully clear, which she said “should not surprise”.
“The United States has taken the very clear position since the start of this conflict that Israel has the right to defend itself, which includes Hamas defeat and to ensure that they are no longer able to threaten Israel,” she told the Council.
China’s ambassador FU Cong said that Israel’s actions have “crossed all the red lines” of international humanitarian law and seriously violated the United Nations resolutions. “However, due to the armor by a country, these violations have not been arrested or responsible.”
Tel Aviv Tribune’s superior political analyst, Marwan Bishara, noted that the American veto makes him “so isolated”.
“There is clearly a gathering storm … with so many countries” which are held against the United States at the CSNU. “It is only the United States that tries to block this current converge and go up against Israel and what it does in Gaza … Israel does not defend itself in Gaza, Israel defends its occupation and its seat in Gaza,” added Bishara.
‘Open the passages
Despite global truce requests, Israel has repeatedly rejected calls to an unconditional or permanent ceasefire, insisting that Hamas cannot stay in power or Gaza. He widened his military assault in Gaza, killing and injuring thousands of other Palestinians and maintaining a brutal blockage on the enclave, allowing only a net of closely controlled aid where a famine is looming.
At least 95 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday and more than 440 injured on Wednesday, according to health officials in Gaza.
Tareq Abu Azzoum of Tel Aviv Tribune, reporting Deir El-Balah, said: “There was a clear increase in attacks.” He said there had been implacable Israeli strikes there in the center of Gaza and throughout the territory.
Meanwhile, the soldiers of Israel warned of hungry Palestinians to approach the roads to the aid distribution sites supported by the United States led by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), saying that the areas will be “considered as combat areas” when it stopped aid all day.
This decision occurred after the Israeli forces opened fire on aid applicants several times, killing more than 100 Palestinians and injured hundreds more since GHF began to operate on May 27.
Witnesses said that Israeli soldiers had opened fire on crowds that massaged before dawn to look for food on Tuesday. Images of hungry Palestinians blurring for derisory aid packages, gathered in cage -shaped lines, then being under fire, caused world indignation.
The Israeli army admitted that it had killed assistance seekers on Tuesday, but said it opened fire when “suspects” had a stipulated route.
In a hospital in the south of Gaza, the family of Reem al-Akhras, which was killed Tuesday during the mass shooting of Israel, cried his death.
“She went to bring us food, and that’s what happened to her,” said her son Zain Zidan through tears. Her husband, Mohamed Zidan, said that “unarmed people” are killed every day. “It is not a humanitarian aid – it is a trap.”
The new aid distribution process – currently from three sites – has been widely criticized by rights groups and the UN, which say that it does not adhere to humanitarian principles. They also say that the help model, which uses private safety and logistics workers in the United States, Aid militaries.
Before the CSNU vote, the head of the United Nations, Tom Fletcher, again called on the UN and the help groups to help people in Gaza, stressing that they have a plan, supplies and experience.
“Open the level passages-all. Leave them in a large-scale rescue help, of all directions. Lift the restrictions on what and the amount of help we can bring. Make sure our convoys are not retained by delays and refusals,” said Fletcher in a press release.
The UN has long blamed Israel and anarchy in the enclave for hampering the delivery of the aid and its distribution to Gaza. Israel accuses Hamas of stealing aid, which the group is vehemently denies, and the World Food Program says that there is no evidence in support of this allegation.
The spokesperson for the UN children’s fund (UNICEF), James Elder, currently in Gaza, described the “horrors” of which he witnessed in just 24 hours. Speaking from Al-Mawasi, Elder told Tel Aviv Tribune that the Hospitals and the streets of Gaza were filled with malnutric children. “I see teenagers in tears, showing myself their coasts,” he said, noting that the children pleaded for food.
The CSNU voted on 14 resolutions linked to Gaza and approved four since the war start of the war in October 2023. The vote on Wednesday was the first since November 2024.
Hamas still holds 58 captives, a third of them who are alive after most of the others have been released in short-term ceasefire agreements or other agreements.
Israel’s offensive killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.