The world’s largest websites extensively cover the Security Council’s call for a cease-fire in Gaza, and Israel’s decision to cancel the delegation to Washington. -AP
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“Israel is isolated with the UN Security Council’s decision on an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip,” read the main headline of the Guardian website after the vote yesterday (Monday). Not only in Israel, many countries in the world also recognize great importance in yesterday’s decision, even though it is a decision which is not officially binding. The fact that for the first time since the beginning of the war the members of the Security Council have agreed to vote in favor of a cease-fire is widely reported around the world, and they also emphasize the escalating crisis between Israel and the US.
“The UN Security Council voted to demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, for the first time since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, after the US removed the threat to impose a veto. The vote brings Israel close to complete isolation in the international arena,” the Guardian wrote.
The US ambassador to the UN abstains from voting in the Security Council Photo: AP
It was also written that “the vote signals a significant rift between the Biden administration and the Israeli government, and represents, belatedly, a show of international unity on the Gaza issue after more than 32,000 dead and thousands more who are declared missing, and at a time when UN agencies are warning that a famine crisis is imminent perpetual”.
The AP news agency emphasized in the main headline: “The UN demand for a cease-fire in Gaza ignites the fiercest confrontation between Israel and the US since the beginning of the war.” The article about the vote in the Security Council states that the US decision not to cast a veto “angered” Israel – which responded by canceling the visit of the senior delegation that was planned to come to Washington to discuss the Rafah operation, “in the most severe public confrontation between the allies”.
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the United States of withdrawing from its principled position by allowing the vote to pass without making the ceasefire conditional on the release of the hostages held by Hamas,” the report said. “National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the administration is ’embarrassed and confused’ by Netanyahu’s decision “.
Photo: AP Benjamin Netanyahu Photo: reuters
“The White House is disappointed by the cancellation of Israel’s delegation to discuss Rafah – after the UN vote on a cease-fire,” read the headline on the ABC News website. The headline quoted John Kirby’s response to Israel’s decision to respond to Washington’s refusal to veto the vote. More was written Because the Biden administration rejects Netanyahu’s claims – because the US’s decision to abstain from voting indicates a fundamental change in its position.
The issue of canceling the delegation is seen as a dramatic step around the world, and many of the major websites mention it in the headlines that deal with the Security Council’s decision. Around the world, this step expresses a distinct escalation in relations between Israel and the US, two major allies. “Israel canceled a visit to the White House after the US did not hold back a vote calling for a cease-fire,” reads, for example, the main headline on the BBC website.
The Wall Street Journal also emphasized the issue of canceling the delegation in the main headline in the report on the vote. “The US move upset Netanyahu’s government, which planned to send senior officials to Washington to discuss plans for a ground operation in Rafah. The decision to abstain, against Israel’s hopes, deepened the growing crisis between Netanyahu and the White House, who are becoming more and more at odds over the management of the war in Gaza.”
“Israel has emphasized that it will continue to fight despite the decision of the UN Security Council,” reads the headline on the Spanish website “El Pais.” “Cancellation of the Israeli delegation’s trip marks a new low for Biden and Netanyahu,” reads the main headline on the website of the CNN network.
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