The United States has vetoed an Arab-backed U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in the embattled Gaza Strip.

The United States vetoed an Arab-backed U.N. resolution Tuesday demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in the embattled Gaza Strip.

The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 13-1 with the United Kingdom abstaining

It was the third U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza.

  • bobalot@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 months ago

    It would be a black mark on the West forever to be complicit in ethnic cleansing like this.