{"id":246458,"date":"2023-10-23T12:01:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=246458"},"modified":"2023-10-19T06:13:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T05:13:58","slug":"us-vetoes-un-resolution-for-ceasefire-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/10\/us-vetoes-un-resolution-for-ceasefire-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"US Vetoes UN Resolution for Ceasefire in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Israel\/Gaza - Humanitarian Aid &amp; Situation Briefing | Security Council | United Nations | USA Veto\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rva0zzPpVzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>18 Oct 2023 &#8211; <\/em>The United States vetoed today a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for \u201chumanitarian pauses\u201d to deliver lifesaving aid to millions in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The failure by the Council to make its first public intervention on the Israel-Gaza crisis followed the rejection of a Russian-backed draft on Monday [16 Oct] evening.<\/p>\n<p>While 12 of the Council\u2019s 15 members voted in favour of the Brazilian-led text, one (United States) voted against, and two (Russia, and the United Kingdom) abstained.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2018no\u2019 vote from any one of the five permanent members of the Council stops action on any measure put before it. The body\u2019s permanent members are China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the vote, two amendments proposed by Russia, calling for an immediate, durable and full ceasefire, and to stop attacks against civilians were rejected by the Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Following the vote, the Permanent Representative of Brazil, the country who introduced the draft resolution and presides the Council in October, said, \u201c\u201cSadly, very sadly the Council was yet again unable to adopt a resolution on the Israeli Palestinian conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9rgio Fran\u00e7a Danese added, \u201cAgain, silence and inaction prevailed, to no one&#8217;s true long-term interest. While we deeply regret that collective action is made impossible in the Security Council, we do hope that efforts by other actors will yield positive results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vasily Nebenzya, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, said, \u201cWe have just been witnesses once again to the hiporcrisy and double standards or our American colleagues. Not standing in principle in the Security Council, they really did not want to have any solutions found here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States\u2019 Permanent Representative, said, \u201cColleagues the United States is disappointed this resolution make no mention of Israel&#8217;s rights of self-defense. Like every nation in the world, Israel has the inherent right of self-defense, as reflected in article 51 of the UN Charter. Following previous terrorist attacks by groups such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, this Council reaffirmed that right. This text should have done the same.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nThe UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, warned the Security Council today that the current crisis \u201cis one of the most difficult moments facing the Israeli and Palestinian people in the last 75 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wennesland added, \u201cThe massacre and despicable acts of violence and terror perpetrated by Hamas against Israelis on 7 October are seared into our collective memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Tuesday\u2019s strike in a hospital in Gaza, the Special Coordinator said, \u201cHundreds of Palestinians were killed \u2013 patients and those seeking shelter \u2013 when the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City was struck by lethal fire. The circumstances of this catastrophe and responsibility still needs to be fully clarified, and we will need a fact based, full investigation, and broad investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, told Council members that there is \u201creal risk of the situation spiraling out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griffiths added, \u201cWhat the people of Israel, Palestine and the region need, what we all need, what this Council\u2019s mandate is in existence to secure, is for sanity and humanity to prevail, drawing on the provisions of international humanitarian law, and for urgent efforts to arrest any further descent into this brutal calamity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also mentioning Tuesday\u2019s strike, the US ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said, \u201cLast night, President Biden directed his national security team to continue gathering information about what exactly happened. While we continue to collect information, our current assessment based on analysis of overhead imagery, intercepts and open source information is that Israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riyad H. Mansour, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine, told Council members, \u201cFor those who think they can avert a humanitarian catastrophe and a regional spell over while Israel continue continues bombing and killing Palestinians, think again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe region is united in telling you it is not possible. Listen to them. The only way to prevent both is to stop this criminal aggression against our people,\u201d said Mansour.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Permanent Representative, Gilad Erdan, asked the Council to \u201clook at what is going on here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erdan added, \u201c11 days after Isis-like Hamas terrorists attempted to carry out another Jewish genocide, this Council is not even focused on their heinous crimes. Up until today, you have not even done the most basic thin. You have not condemned, as a Council, Hamas\u2019 brutal terror attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_246462\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/us-Ambassador-Linda-Thomas-Greenfield-U.N.-Security-Council-Gaza.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246462\" class=\"wp-image-246462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/us-Ambassador-Linda-Thomas-Greenfield-U.N.-Security-Council-Gaza-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/us-Ambassador-Linda-Thomas-Greenfield-U.N.-Security-Council-Gaza-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/us-Ambassador-Linda-Thomas-Greenfield-U.N.-Security-Council-Gaza-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/us-Ambassador-Linda-Thomas-Greenfield-U.N.-Security-Council-Gaza-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/us-Ambassador-Linda-Thomas-Greenfield-U.N.-Security-Council-Gaza.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-246462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaking at U.N. Security Council meeting on Gaza war. (UN TV\/YouTube)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><b>Join the<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><i><b> <\/b><\/i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><b>BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><b>campaign<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>BARCODE<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b> STARTS WITH<\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b>729<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><b>7 2 9:<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b> BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 Oct 2023 &#8211; The US vetoed today a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza as well as for Israel to rescind its order to 1.1 million Gazans to leave their homes and move to the south of their enclave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":246462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[547,1854,1199,87,865,2456,715,2571,85,124,1888,70,965],"class_list":["post-246458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-nations","tag-brazil","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-humanitarian-intervention","tag-massacre","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-palestine-israel","tag-united-nations","tag-unsc","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246474,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246458\/revisions\/246474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}