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SvennoJ on 19 September 2025
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‘Greenlight for genocide’: Amnesty slams US veto of Gaza ceasefire resolution

Amnesty International has condemned the United States for vetoing a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and unrestricted humanitarian aid.

This is the sixth time the US has vetoed such a resolution, Amnesty’s Secretary-General Agnes Callamard said, calling it “morally reprehensible” and accusing Washington of “greenlighting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza”.

Callamard said the veto comes as Israel unleashes “an unprecedented campaign of annihilation” in Gaza City, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee to unsafe areas in the south and accelerating the “erasure of the ancient city, its heritage, and Palestinian identity”.

She warned that the US, by continuing to arm and back Israel, risks complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, and urged all states to impose an immediate ban on arms transfers, surveillance equipment, and trade or investments that contribute to Israeli crimes.

What do you mean 'risks complicity', USA is fully complicit.



‘Regional killer of journalists’: CPJ slams Israel after deadly Yemen strikes

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Israel’s September 10 strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, killed 31 journalists and media workers, making it the deadliest single attack on the press since the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines.

CPJ said the strikes destroyed printing presses, archives, and newsrooms, wiping out one of Yemen’s most important historical records and leaving some victims’ bodies buried under rubble. A child was among the dead, and 22 journalists were injured.

“Since October 7, 2023, Israel has emerged as a regional killer of journalists, with repeated incidents in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and now Yemen confirming Israel’s longstanding pattern of labelling journalists as terrorists or propagandists to justify their killings,” said CPJ Regional Program Director Sara Qudah.

The group accused Israel of expanding its “war on journalism” beyond Gaza and called the attacks a grave violation of international law, warning that journalists across the region are now at risk.