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US blocks UNSC statement that would have blamed Israel for Gaza City massacre
The US has blocked a statement put forward by Algeria to the UN Security Council that would have assigned blame to Israel for the killing of more than 100 Palestinians awaiting food aid in northern Gaza.
Palestine’s UN ambassador, Riyad Mansour, told reporters that the statement was backed by all of the UNSC’s 15 members except the US.
Explaining the decision to block the statement, US Ambassador Robert Wood said, “We don’t have all the facts on the ground – that’s the problem.”
He said that the US is trying to verify the “circumstances around how people died” to see if “we can find some language that everyone can agree on”.
Robert Wood, deputy permanent representative of the US to the United Nations, speaks during a UN Security Council meeting in January 2024
The UNSC is pointless, both genocidal maniacs, Russia and the US have veto power.
UN chief says Gaza aid massacre requires independent investigation
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that the killing of more than 100 Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza City will require an independent investigation, the Reuters news agency reports. Speaking in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ahead of a regional summit, Guterres added that he was “shocked” by the latest loss of life in Israel’s war on Gaza.
When asked about the failure of the UN Security Council to agree on a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, he said that geopolitical divides have “transformed the veto power into an effective instrument of paralysis of the action of the Security Council”.
Overcrowded prisons, better kill them in the streets instead of more nasty probes into prison deaths
Israeli military says ‘administrative detainees’ to be freed to make space for new prisoners
Israel’s military said that due to a “shortage of space in the prisons”, a decision had been reached to release “administrative detainees” early “in order to make room for detainees with a higher threat level”. In a post on social media, the military did not say how many detainees would be freed. The release applied to those who are due for release “in the coming month”, it said.
Administrative detention allows Israeli forces to arrest Palestinians and put them behind bars – without charge or evidence of wrongdoing – for an initial period of six months. Their detentions can then be repeatedly extended for an indefinite period, again without charge or trial.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society reports that more than 6,500 Palestinians have been arrested just since October 7 alone.
