US vetoes UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire | Semafor
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The vote came a day after the U.S. Secretary of State issued his strongest criticism of Israel since the war started.

The U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution Friday calling for a ceasefire to the fighting in Gaza.

The U.S. and Israel have opposed calls for a ceasefire, saying it would strengthen Hamas.

The vote was delayed for several hours over worries the U.S. would veto it. Diplomats from several Arab nations met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to try to convince the U.S. to abstain from voting.

As a permanent member of the council, the U.S. has veto power, and had signaled it planned to block the resolution. The U.K. abstained from the vote, while the 13 other members of the council voted for it.

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    • chaogomu@kbin.social
      2·
      10 months ago

      The security council didn’t condemn the raid on October 7th for the same reason they don’t condemn any non-state actor doing anything. It’s not their job.

      Take a look at all the resolutions proposed, or enacted.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_resolution

      Most of them are boring as fuck, except that each one is talking about some sort of conflict or other threat to peace, but viewed through the lens of member nations. That’s their jurisdiction.

      You will see one sort of exception, the UN security council did condemn the 9/11 attacks. That was the only time that I can find that they condemned a non-state actor, and even that was mostly a call for member states to co-operate with anti-terrorism measures that had been previously agreed on.

      • answersplease77@lemmy.world
        161·
        10 months ago

        Don’t twist words to justify genocide and killing and crippling children. You’re not killing Hamas. By IDF skewed and exaggerated numbers last week, they admit they “only killed 10000 civilians” and the rest was Hamas. The actual number and harm is more horrific and is terrorism 10 folds worse than what Hamas did on Oct-7 which condem yourself, but cheerish the acts that are 10 times worse?

        Again, airstikes on refugee camps, schools, hospitals, places of worships, don’t kill Hamas. The IDF are the most coward military who kill children with airstrikes instead of moving on the ground to reduce civilian causalities.