DayofPal– The United States vetoed a United Nations security council resolution urging for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza.
14 remaining countries on the council voted in favour of the resolution. They are Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, and Somalia. Russia, China, France and the UK also voted in favour.
The resolution also described the situation in Gaza as “catastrophic”, and demanded the “immediate and unconditional lifting of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and its safe and unhindered distribution at scale, including by the UN and humanitarian partners”.
France’s ambassador to the UN Jerome Bonnafont said, “The Council was prevented from shouldering its responsibility, despite the fact that most of us seem to be converging on one view.”
“Today, the United States sent a strong message by vetoing a counterproductive UN Security Council resolution on Gaza targeting Israel,” US secretary of state Marco Rubio said in a statement after the vote.
This is the fifth time that the US cast a veto against the UN ceasefire resolution, since October 7.
The negative move rocked the world as Trump continued to promote himself as a neutral broker and a peace seeker in the Middle East.
Former UN human rights official, Craig Mokhiber, commented, “Another blood‑soaked hand is raised… For the 5th time… the US has again vetoed a ceasefire… your lies are exposed… This is not a mediator. This is a gesture of a co‑perpetrator, of a genocidaire.”
UN rapporteur Balakrishnan Rajagopal also called the US “the biggest threat to international peace and security” and urged ending the permanent veto.
Security council members criticized the US for the veto.
Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN said the failed resolution would “remain not only a moral stain on the conscience of this council, but a fateful moment of political application that will reverberate for generations.”
China’s ambassador to the UN Fu Cong said: “today’s vote result once again exposes that the root cause of the council’s inability to quell the conflict in Gaza is the repeated obstruction by the US.”
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