Condemnation of America's actions to veto the ceasefire resolution in Gaza

As a permanent member of the Security Council, the country on Friday vetoed a resolution proposed by the United Arab Emirates to establish a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, despite receiving 13 votes in favor in the council. At a Friday evening meeting of the UN Security Council, a resolution on the United Arab Emirates proposal was put to a vote, with 13 of the 15 members of the Security Council voting in favor, the US and UK voting against, and another member of that council abstaining. According to Arab News, Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International's secretary general, said in a statement on the organization's website Saturday morning in response to the US veto of the Gaza ceasefire resolution that the United States had demonstrated its "cruel indifference to the suffering of civilians " Agnès Callamard Callamard added: “America has shamelessly exercised its veto power and weakened its authority and ability to maintain international peace and security.” The Secretary General of Amnesty International stressed that the US use of its veto on this resolution is “morally unjustifiable”. Dmitry Polyansky, Russia's deputy representative to the UN, said the council's inaction had led to massive destruction in the Gaza Strip and a humanitarian catastrophe. Dmitry Polyansky Polyansky said: “American diplomacy is once again leaving scorched earth and destruction.” This Russian diplomat also stressed: “Colleagues, if you once again prevent an immediate ceasefire, how will you explain this to your people?” Nicolas de Rivières, France's representative to the United Nations, acknowledged that there was no real commitment in the Security Council to respond to the United States' undermining of the United Nations in Gaza. Nicolas de Riviere “This council has failed again,” de Rivière said. France's UN representative said: "France is deeply concerned about the human tragedy taking place in Gaza, and that is why France voted for this resolution." Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador and UN representative, told a UN Security Council meeting on Gaza on Friday local time: "Israel is planning ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, confiscating the property of the Palestinian people and displacing them by force, and this war is aimed at the destruction of the Palestinian people, the end of the Palestinian question and the destruction of the world." Riyad Mansour He added: "Israel says the goal of the Gaza war is to destroy Hamas, and 70% of the victims of its attacks are civilians. Israel's goal in the Gaza war is clear: to force people to leave the area." Mansour explained: "Shame on those who refuse to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. This war is designed to destroy the Palestinian people and put an end to the Palestinian issue." He stressed: “This war is targeting civilians, especially children, and the occupying soldiers are attacking unarmed people in the Gaza Strip, driving them off their land. Our safety and existence are at stake, so how can Israel be allowed to do this? The law must protect everyone and there must be no hierarchy of races." A representative of the Palestinian Authority said at a meeting of the UN Security Council, emphasizing that Israeli attacks on Gaza are practically making it uninhabitable: "Israel's goal is to force people to leave the region. Israel will make Gaza uninhabitable for everyone and displace people." Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) Meanwhile, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) issued a statement and said it strongly condemns America's veto of the Gaza ceasefire resolution and that America's actions are immoral and inhumane. On October 7, 2023, Palestinian resistance forces launched a surprise operation called Al-Aqsa Storm from the Gaza Strip (southern Palestine) against the positions of the occupying Quds Force regime and this regime, in order to take revenge and compensate for its defeat and stop resistance operations, closed all checkpoints points in the Gaza Strip, constantly bombing residential and medical areas of this enclave region. The Zionist regime has killed more than 1,7,487  Gazans and injured more than 47,000 since the Zionist regime's attacks on the Gaza Strip began, 70% of whom were women and children.