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UNSC set to vote on Gaza ceasefire resolution
The vote will take place at 10am local time in New York (15:00 GMT) today.
The latest resolution – put forward by the 10 elected members of the UNSC – demands “an immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas. The supporting members are Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Switzerland.
The text could still be blocked by the US, one of five non-elected members with the power to veto resolutions, according to Security Council Report, a media outlet which monitors the UN council’s work.
The council has already voted on 11 resolutions related to the war in Gaza since October last year. Only four of those resolutions were adopted.
US vetoes UN Security Council resolution on Gaza ceasefire
The Security Council vote on the Gaza ceasefire resolution has ended with 14 votes for it and one vote against.
US deputy envoy says end to Gaza war must come ‘with the release of hostages’
US Deputy Ambassador to the UN Robert Wood has been addressing the Security Council.
Wood said his country “deeply regrets” the position of the council after the latest Gaza ceasefire vote. “The United States worked for weeks in good faith to avoid this outcome,” Wood said. “We made clear throughout negotiations that we could not support an unconditional ceasefire. … A durable end to the war must come with the release of the hostages,” he added.
This resolution would have sent a “dangerous message to Hamas”, Wood said, adding that the message would have been “there is no need to come back to the negotiating table”. He said Hamas would have seen it as “a vindication of its cynical strategy” that the International community forgets about the fate of the Israeli captives held in Gaza. “We must not let that happen,” Woods said. “We will not forget them.”
He said the US will resume diplomatic efforts for a resolution amid Israel’s ongoing deadly assault on the enclave.
Hamas already agreed to all that back in May, stop gaslighting.
‘Nothing will change’ in Gaza without a ceasefire
I was just watching the speech at the UN Security Council – again, a heartless and cold veto by the US.
No one is surprised across Gaza by this veto. After all, this war has been largely supported by the US and by the ongoing narrative that has been miming the Israeli military and the Israeli government but not doing anything substantial on the ground.
And that’s why we see the strikes continue everywhere across the Gaza Strip, causing further civilian casualties – also causing sheer destruction and more forcible displacement from the northern part of the Strip.
The strikes do not stop. The heavy artillery do not stop. Around the clock and no end in sight.
A ceasefire is very, very essential and needed immediately. Without a ceasefire, nothing on the ground can change.
US ‘is on an island by itself’
This is the fourth time since October 2023 that the US has used its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution in the Security Council.
The US [explained] its reasons: No condemnation of Hamas for the acts of October 7, [2023,] and also one paragraph called OP1. The US said it wanted in this draft the ceasefire to be connected and conditional on the release of all the captives.
The draft called for the release of all captives and also called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire but did not necessarily link them or make them conditional, and this is what the United States is saying it is against.
But clearly, the US is on an island by itself. This draft resolution was a product of weeks of negotiations, and it was started by the elected 10 members of the Security Council. [There’s] clear frustration on the part of the Security Council that there’s been inaction on Gaza, and that’s why the elected 10 members came up with this draft.
It had been worked on for nearly three weeks now, but in the end, it was vetoed by the US.
