US blocks Security Council ceasefire resolution

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US blocks Security Council ceasefire resolution

The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the ******* Nations Security Council – the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, *******.

Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza “must end immediately, unconditionally and permanently and all remaining hostages must be immediately and unconditionally released”.

Deputy US ambassador to the UN, Robert Wood, said the document “abandoned” the necessity for there to be “a linkage between a ceasefire and the release of hostages”.

Wood said the proposed resolution would have sent a “dangerous message” to ******.

The UNSC is composed of five permanent members which have veto power – and 10 which are elected.

This group proposed the draft resolution which also “rejected any effort to starve Palestinians”.

The vote was held as the UN warned that Palestinians were “facing diminishing conditions for survival” in parts of northern Gaza under siege by ******** forces because

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Earlier this month, a UN-backed assessment said there was a strong likelihood that famine was imminent in areas of northern Gaza.

The ******** military has said its six-week-long offensive targets regrouping ****** fighters, and that it is facilitating civilian evacuations and supply deliveries to hospitals.

After the US veto, China’s ambassador said people could not help but ask: “Do ************ lives mean nothing?”

France said international humanitarian law was being trampled and the only response should have been an immediate and permanent ceasefire.

The *** said it wanted to end the war, stop the suffering in Gaza and secure the immediate release of all hostages.

But the harshest criticism of the US came from outside the Council doors.

Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) UN director, Louis Charbonneau, accused Washington of “once again” using its veto power “to ensure impunity for ******* as its forces continue to commit ******* against Palestinians in Gaza”.

******* rejects the accusations. It says it has substantially increased the amount of aid getting into Gaza, and accuses aid agencies of failing to adequately distribute it.

The current war broke out after ****** gunmen burst through the border and attacked ******** communities, ******** about 1,200 people, according to ******** tallies, and taking 253 into Gaza as hostages.

More than 43,920 people have been ******* in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s health ministry.

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