Some more insight in why only outside pressure can stop the massacres
And the big stumbling block remains to be the US
US says it continues to believe that genocide has not occurred in Gaza
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller has reiterated that the US does not believe Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, as countries such as South Africa and some experts on international law have suggested.
Asked about recent comments by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, Miller said the US “obviously” disagrees with those comments. “We have been quite clear that we do not believe that genocide has occurred in Gaza,” he added.
Palestinian presidency slams US for blocking UNSC ceasefire measure
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s office says the US veto at the UN Security Council defies the international community and gives Israel “an additional green light for the Israeli occupation to continue its aggression against the people of Gaza and to launch a bloody assault against Rafah”.
The Palestinian presidency also said that it holds the US administration responsible for “supporting and providing protection” to Israel’s “barbaric attacks” against children, women and the elderly in Gaza. “This policy makes the United States a partner in the crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing and the war crimes Israeli forces are committing,” a statement from the office reads.
It added that the US is advancing its own Security Council draft resolution that would call for pauses in the fighting only to justify its veto against the ceasefire proposal.
Palestine UN envoy after US veto: ‘We will keep knocking’ on the UN’s doors
Riyad Mansour tells Al Jazeera that it is “very regrettable” that the US used its veto power to kill yet another UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “Call it whatever, humanitarian, describe it as you wish, but immediate ceasefire, as requested by the secretary-general of the UN, and almost all humanitarian agencies of the United Nations, and a massive number of countries in the General Assembly,” he said.
“It is the wrong message to be sending by the Security Council to Israel,” he continued, adding that Palestine will not give up its efforts to find sympathy at the UN. “We will continue knocking on the door of the Security Council, the General Assembly, all components of the United Nations,” he said.
When asked for a response to US envoy Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s justification for the veto, that a ceasefire would harm now-stalled negotiations for a truce deal, Mansour was dismissive. “That is not true, because two of those who are involved in these sensitive negotiations the representatives of Qatar and Egypt indicated that that is not so,” he said. “A ceasefire will help the negotiation to move forward swiftly, and to accomplish the objective of the exchange of prisoners, and hostages”.
