USA a resolution to foster on Wednesday vetoed on Wednesday The entry of humanitarian aid in Gazaa text that had been presented by the ten non -permanent members of the UN Security Council.
This is the sixth time in which the United States vetoes a critical resolution with Israel from the outbreak of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023.
The other fourteen members of the Council, including countries closest to Israel such as France and the United Kingdomthey voted in favor of a resolution that only contained three demands: high fire, release of hostages in the hands of Hamás and facilitate large -scale humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, which suffers an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
The text had been negotiating between the fifteen members of the Council for two weeks until reaching “A reasonable consensus“As the representative of Slovenia, Samuel Zbogar said.
In an intervention prior to the vote, the interim representative of the United States, Dorothy Shea, justified the veto of his country because he considered that such a resolution “is unacceptable for what he says and what he does not say (…) The United States has made it clear: We will not support any measure that does not condemn Hamas or require him to disarm and leave Gaza“.
“It is inexplicable that many members of this Council continue to refuse to recognize that Hamás could end this conflict tomorrow if he surrenders and leaves his weapons. It is inconceivable that The UN has not yet qualified Hamas as a terrorist organization“Shea added.
For the diplomat, that resolution would only “establish a false equivalence between Israel and Hamáswhich is incorrect and dangerous. “
Finally, he asked that the UN and the entire world of the world support the Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza (GHF)American agency promoted by the Israel government to direct humanitarian aid outside the UN channels, and this despite the fact that each assistance operation has resulted in chaos and panic situations, and in some cases of killings.
British ambassador, Barbara Woodward, used unusually hard language with Israel for restricting the delivery of humanitarian aid, and said that shooting Palestinians who wait with their families to collect help (in reference to the shots recognized by the Israel Army) “is inhuman.”
Pakistani Ambassador Iphtikhar Ahmadcollecting the opinion of a good part of the Muslim countries, thus summed up what is happening in Gaza: “This is no longer a humanitarian crisis, it is the collapse of humanity“.
“When the whole world was waiting for action, again this council is blocked by the action of a single member that prevents him from fulfilling his responsibility,” he concluded.
