The United States vetoes a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza at the UN Security Council.

WashingtonThe United States has single-handedly vetoed a resolution presented this Wednesday by the ten non-permanent members of the UN Security Council to call for a permanent ceasefire and facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza. the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has assured that the US vote sends "a strong message" about the country's position regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza. "We will not support a measure that does not condemn Hamas, that does not demand" false equivalence between Israel and Hamas or that ignores Israel's right to defend itself," Rubio said in a statement. He also criticized the members of the Council who voted in favor of the resolution, saying that they "refuse to recognize" the reality of a measure that, in his opinion, undermines diplomatic efforts to achieve a ceasefire, the release of hostages held by Hamas and facilitate large-scale humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, suffering from an unprecedented humanitarian crisis"This resolution would only have empowered Hamas to continue stealing aid and threatening civilians. The United States will never stop working to free all the hostages," Rubio says. He defends the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the new mechanism imposed by the United States in agreement with Israel just over a week ago. with which more than a hundred Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops while waiting to collect food.

Speaking before the Security Council vote, US interim representative Dorothy Shea justified her country's veto of the resolution: "It is unacceptable both for what it says and for what it doesn't say [...]. The United States has made it clear: we will not support any measure that does not condemn Hamas or -."

This very Wednesday – the day after at least 27 Palestinians were killed while trying to collect aid, according to authorities in the Gaza Strip – The Israeli army declared the roads leading to the city "combat zones" to the four food distribution points of theGHFand called them "forbidden" for Palestinians.