However, the US vetoed the UN’s emergency resolution on Friday with regard to the creation of a truce in Gaza after several weeks of fierce Israeli military assaults that struck back in retaliation of the Hamas attacks dated October 7. The fighting has claimed casualties of 17,487 people, most of whom being women and children as reported by the recent figures issued by the Hamas-controlled department of health in the Palestinian territory. Responding the the October attack that killed about 1,200 people and kidnapped 138, Israel wants to totally erase Hamas.
The desert-like appearance of huge parts of Gaza. According to UN, some eighty percent of the population were relocated, facing a crisis of food shortage, scarce water, fuel, essential drugs, as well as a high likelihood of diseases.
António Guterres invoked Article 99 of the charter rarely and called on an emergency Session in the Security Council requesting the parties to immediately halt the hostilities. He demanded the release of hostages and noted, “such brutality of Hamas does not justify collect punishment of Palestinians”.
Nonetheless, given that US is one of the biggest providers of military aid to Israel it exercised its powers of veto and defeated the said resolution.
Mr. Robet Wood, the USA Deputy Representative at UN, rejected the resolution as being “far-fetched” and called it would remain fruitless if applied. However, he went ahead with this resolution despite cautions from the WHO of an approaching humanitarian catastrophe
As spoken by WHO’s Christian Lindmeier, people in Gaza have been forced into desperate measures including burning telephone pole fibers for wood because of serious lack of resources. MSF pointed a finger at the Security Council, calling it “complicit in the continuing murder”.
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