The US-sponsored resolution called for an immediate ceasefire to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to more than 2 million hungry Palestinians.
Russia and China on Friday vetoed a US-sponsored United Nations resolution calling for “an immediate and sustained ceasefire” in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to more than 2 million hungry Palestinians.
Palestinians pray on Friday near the ruins of Rafah’s Al-Farouq Mosque, which was destroyed by Israeli air strikes.Before the vote, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said Moscow supported an immediate ceasefire, but he questioned the language in the resolution and accused US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield of “misleading the international community” for “politicised” reasons.
Palestinians in Khan Younis mourn the deaths of relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.Russia and China vetoed a US-sponsored resolution in late October calling for pauses in the fighting to deliver aid, protection of civilians and a halt to arming Hamas. They said it did not reflect global calls for a ceasefire.
In Gaza, the Hamas-run Health Ministry raised the death toll in the territory on Thursday to nearly 32,000 Palestinians. It doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count, but says women and children make up two-thirds of the dead.
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