Published December 09,2023
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Palestine’s UN envoy Riyad al-Mansour slammed the UN Security Council’s failure to undertake a draft decision searching for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza on Friday.
The US vetoed the decision, which was co-sponsored by practically 100 UN member states. It obtained the assist of 13 Security Council members. The United Kingdom, whom just like the US is a everlasting council member with veto energy, abstained.
Mansour known as the failure “beyond regrettable” and “disastrous.”
“Instead of allowing this council to uphold its mandate by finally making a clear call, after two months, that atrocities must end, the war criminals are given more time to perpetuate their crimes. How can this be justified? How can anyone justify the slaughter of an entire people?” he stated.
Mansour reiterated his name for a cease-fire, saying “every further day means lives lost, people killed at an unprecedented pace in modern history.”
The draft decision known as for all events to the battle to stick to worldwide regulation, notably the safety of civilians, demanded a direct humanitarian cease-fire and known as on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to report back to the council on the cease-fire’s implementation.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), which launched the draft, stated it labored to expeditiously full the decision because of the mounting variety of lifeless over the 63-day struggle.
Robert Wood, the US consultant to the UN, stated the Biden administration exercised its veto energy as a result of a cease-fire would have allowed Hamas to stay in charge of Gaza.
“As long as Hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, any cease-fire is at best temporary and is certainly not peace. And any cease-fire that leaves Hamas in control of Gaza will deny Palestinian civilians the chance to build something better for themselves,” he stated.
“For that reason, although the United States strongly supports a durable peace in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security, we do not support this resolution’s call for an unsustainable cease-fire that will only plant the seeds for the next war.”
Over 17,000 folks have been killed in Gaza amid relentless Israeli shelling and airstrikes, in keeping with official figures from Gaza authorities. Women and youngsters represent about 70% of all those that have died, with greater than 46,000 others wounded. Roughly 1.8 million Palestinians have been internally displaced.
Israel started its struggle in retaliation for the Palestinian group Hamas’s Oct. 7 cross-border assault through which over 1,200 Israelis have been killed. Roughly 240 different folks had been taken again to Gaza as hostages.
Source: www.anews.com.tr