Netanyahu cancels delegation to U.S. after it abstains from cease-fire vote

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Netanyahu cancels delegation to U.S. after it abstains from cease-***** vote

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Washington — ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he will not send a delegation to Washington after the U.S. refused to veto a ******* Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-***** in Gaza. 

The Security Council passed the resolution on Monday that called for a cease-***** during the ******* holy month of Ramadan, which ends in two weeks. The resolution also demands the release of the remaining hostages that have been held captive since the Oct. 7 ******* ******* by ******, but does not condition a cease-***** on the release of hostages. 

The U.S. abstained from the vote, which Netanyahu’s office said was a “clear retreat from the consistent position of the U.S.” since the start of the *******-****** war. 

“This withdrawal hurts both the war effort and the effort to release the hostages, because it gives ****** hope that international pressure will allow them to accept a cease-***** without the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu’s office said. 

Netanyahu made it clear to the U.S. on Sunday that he would not send the delegation to the U.S. to discuss the ******** military’s plans for an operation in Rafah without the veto, according to his office. 

White House spokesman John Kirby called the cancellation “disappointing.” 

“We’re very disappointed that they won’t be coming to Washington, D.C., to allow us to have a fulsome conversation with them about viable alternatives to going in on the ground in Rafah,” Kirby told reporters.  

The Biden administration has supported *******’s right to defend itself in response to the ********** *******, but has become more critical of Netanyahu’s government amid a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and has urged restraint in Rafah, a city near Egypt’s border where more than one million displaced Palestinians are estimated to have taken refuge after fleeing fighting elsewhere in Gaza. 

Sara Cook contributed reporting. 

Caitlin Yilek

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at cbsnews.com and is based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.

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