{"id":30544,"date":"2023-12-11T12:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T20:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=30544"},"modified":"2023-12-11T12:08:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T20:08:31","slug":"disastrous-us-vetoes-cease-fire-resolution-at-un-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/11\/disastrous-us-vetoes-cease-fire-resolution-at-un-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Disastrous’: US Vetoes Cease-Fire Resolution at UN Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Palestinian man covered in dust holds the hand of a weeping child following an Israeli airstrike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Mohammed Abed\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Security Council was again prevented from rising to this moment to uphold its clear responsibilities in the face of this grave crisis threatening human lives and threatening regional and international peace and security,” said the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dec 08, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the United Nations humanitarian chief warned<\/a> that aid workers in Gaza are “hanging on by our fingertips” as they try to mitigate an “untenable” disaster, and with Americans’ support <\/a>for Israel’s U.S-backed bombardment of the enclave eroding, the United States on Friday vetoed a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire at the U.N. Security Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Envoy to the U.N. Robert Wood told<\/a> members of the council that a cease-fire would “only plant the seeds for the next war.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirteen member-countries voted in favor of the cease-fire resolution, which was introduced after U.N. Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres took the rare step <\/a>of invoking Article 99 of the U.N. Charter, warning that Israel’s slaughter of at least 17,487 Palestinians<\/a> in just two months “may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.K. abstained from voting on the resolution, saying it did not take into account that Hamas committed acts of terrorism when it attacked Israel on October 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. envoy, called<\/a> the veto “disastrous.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Security Council was again prevented from rising to this moment to uphold its clear responsibilities in the face of this grave crisis threatening human lives and threatening regional and international peace and security,” said Mansour. “Instead of allowing this council to uphold its mandate by finally making a clear call after two months of massacres that the atrocities must end, the war criminals are given more time to perpetuate them. How can this be justified?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas de Rivi\u00e8re, France’s permanent representative to the Security Council, who voted in favor of the cease-fire, argued<\/a> that there is no “contradiction in the fight against terrorism and the protection of civilians, in strict respect of international humanitarian law.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Unfortunately once again, this council has failed. With a lack of unity and by refusing to genuinely commit to negotiations in doing this, the crisis in Gaza is getting worse and it runs the risk of extending,” said de Rivi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. has now vetoed U.N. resolutions to hold Israel accountable for its policies in Palestine 45 times, human rights lawyer Noura Erakat said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US just vetoed an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. Again. This is the second veto against a #ceasefire<\/a> the 45th veto the US has issued to protect Israel from accountability and\/or an international resolution to Palestinian colonial domination. https:\/\/t.co\/bT81yKrBrc<\/a> #Gaza<\/a><\/p>— Noura Erakat (@4noura) December 8, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>