2024-02-20T17:09:46+00:00
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/ The UN Security Council failed again to vote in favor of a draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons and to deliver aid after the United States used its veto on Tuesday.
13 countries in the UN Security Council voted in favor of the draft resolution submitted by Algeria, while Britain abstained from voting and the United States used its veto.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield expressed “the United States’ understanding of the Security Council’s desire to move quickly, but not at the expense of achieving lasting peace.”
“An immediate ceasefire would prolong the conflict and the duration of the hostages’ detention,” she said at a Security Council session before the vote on the draft resolution.
Greenfield noted that the United States has another draft resolution that calls for a temporary ceasefire “that is consistent with what we are seeing.”
The Algerian representative to the United Nations, Amar Benjamaa, urged the members of the Security Council to vote in favor of the draft resolution, noting that “the members of the Council were given a long time to study the draft resolution and we see it as balanced,” calling on the international community to act quickly.
He considered that “voting in favor of the draft resolution represents support for the Palestinians’ right to life, and voting against it means approving starvation as a method of war.”