The U.N. Security Council has rejected a Russian resolution on Gaza that condemned violence and terrorism against civilians but made no mention of Hamas, whose surprise attack killed 1,300 Israelis.
Palestinian Observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, faces and shakes hands with Security Council President and Brazilian Ambassador to the United Nations Sergio Franca Danese before members of the the U.N. Security Council went into closed consultations at United Nations headquarters Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. A planned vote on dueling resolutions on the Israel-Hamas war was delayed as a result, but the council remained in session. – The U.N.
Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, had urged support for the resolution to respond to the “unprecedented exacerbation” of the situation, citing the council's inaction since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. The U.N.’s most powerful body, which is charged with maintaining international peace and security, has not taken a position on the Hamas assault or on Israel's response with airstrikes that have killed 2,750 Palestinians and an order to Gazans in the north to head south to avoid an expected ground war.” and “strongly condemns all violence and hostilities directed against civilians and all acts of terrorism.” It never mentions Hamas.
One amendment would add a call “for an immediate, durable and fully respected humanitarian ceasefire.”
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