Israel today continued its offensive against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, after what USA would block a resolution of the UN Security Council that called for an immediate ceasefire after more than two months of war.
This way, The fight between Israel and Hamas continues. For this reason, the Palestinian group and the Palestinian National Authority, which partially administers the occupied West Bank, They harshly condemned the position of the United Statesone of the five permanent members and with veto power at the highest level of the United Nations.
Meanwhile, in the south of the enclave, an Israeli bombing in Khan Yunis left six people dead and another five people perished in an attack in Rafah, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
For their part, the Ezzedin Al Qasam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, claimed today new rocket attacks against southern Israel. According to the Islamist movement, a total of 17,490 peoplemostly women and children, have died in Israeli bombings and ground operations in Gaza since the start of the war on October 7.
Israel launched an offensive that day in response to an incursion by Islamist militiamen from Gaza that killed 1,200 peoplemostly civilians, and They kidnapped about 240 in the south of the countryamong them twenty with Argentine nationality.
The United States, Israel’s main ally
The resolution to call for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” presented at the UN was vetoed yesterday by the United States, Israel’s main ally.
For the deputy representative of the United States at the UN, Robert Wood, the resolution was dissociated from “reality” and “would not have moved a needle on the ground.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen stated that a ceasefire “could prevent the collapse of the Hamas terrorist organizationwhich is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity and would have allowed him to continue governing the Gaza Strip.”
Hamas called the US position “immoral and inhuman“and he said that it is equivalent to”a direct participation“in the “massacres.”
Also the president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmud Abbas, considered that the United States is “responsible for bloodshed of Palestinian children, women and the elderly in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces.
For his part, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that the UN Security Council has become the “Israel Protection Council.”
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The proposal for a ceasefire
The proposal in the Security Council for a ceasefire had 13 votes in favorwhich were from China, France, Russia, Albania, United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Switzerland, Japan, Malta and Mozambique, an abstention From United Kingdom and the US vetoone of the five permanent members who have that power.
The Israeli bombings only stopped during the truce of one week that came into effect on November 24, negotiated with the mediation of Qatar, Egypt and the United States, to exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners imprisoned in Israel.
Israel estimates that there are still 138 hostages held in Gaza. For its part, Hamas indicated that a hostage identified as Sahar Baruch died and released a video showing a body. Furthermore, according to the Palestinian National Authority, the war also revived the tensions in the West Banka territory occupied by Israel since 1967, where an Israeli operation killed six Palestinians yesterday.
Source: Ambito
