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Palestinian officials have censured the United States (US) over using its power of veto alone to veto a UN Security Council resolution urging an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, describing the move as “disastrous” and “a disgrace”, reports Press TV.
Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour slammed the UN Security Council’s failure to adopt a UN resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire as “beyond regrettable” and “disastrous.”
Mansour reiterated his call for a ceasefire, saying “every further day means lives lost, people killed at an unprecedented pace in modern history.”
Separately, Hamas resistance movement also slammed the US for sinking the UN ceasefire call, stating that the measure clearly shows Washington’s direct complicity in the Israeli carnage against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Izzat al-Risheq, a member of the Hamas’ political bureau, said in a statement that the United States’ veto of the resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza is “unethical and inhumane.”
“Washington’s decision to scuttle the draft resolution points to its active and direct participation with the occupying Israeli regime in the ongoing massacre of our people, and committing more massacres and ethnic cleansing,” he alleged.
The draft resolution proposed by the United Arab Emirates received support from thirteen members of the Security Council, with Britain choosing to abstain.
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