For 3rd time this week… US blocks Security Council call for ceasefire in Palestine
New York (QNN)- The United States on Sunday has for the third time in a week blocked a Security Council calling for a ceasefire to end the Israeli aggression on the Gaza strip.
According to Israeli media, the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said her country is “working tirelessly through diplomatic channels to try and bring an end to this conflict.”
14 of 15 Security Council members planned to issue a joint statement, requiring unanimous approval, after closed emergency meetings on Monday and Wednesday.
The statement would have called for an immediate ceasefire and condemn both the occupation state and the resistance.
The US reportedly twice blocked over the last week resolutions that would have condemned Israel’s military response and called for a ceasefire. Nearly 200 people, including 58 children, have been killed in the intense bombing of the besieged enclave of two million people.
The occupation state has justified its bombing campaign against civilians in Gaza as retaliation to missile attacks by the resistance, however, the resistance, led by Hamas movement, said its actions were a response to the Israeli policy of forced displacement of Palestinians in the eastern part of Jerusalem and the storming of Al Aqsa Mosque by Israeli forces during Ramadan. ‘Israel’ had missed a Hamas deadline to withdraw its forces from the mosque compound.
