U.S. Blocks UN Resolution That Blames Israel for Gaza Massacre at Food Convoy
The U.S.-backed IDF militants can kill whoever they want in Gaza, and they will have Washington's support
The Biden administration, once again, proved that there is no crime too severe that Israel can commit against Palestinians that would result in public condemnation or a policy change.
Just a day after over 100 Palestinians were killed at a Gaza food convoy — including many with gunshot wounds — the U.S. blocked consideration of a UN Security Council resolution blaming Israel for the deaths, The Jerusalem Post reported.
The report read:
The Associated Press reported that 14 of the 15 members of the Security Council favored approving the resolution, drafted by Algeria, but that the United States, one of five permanent members of the council with veto power, blocked it, seeking more information about the incident. The text of the draft resolution was not available.
The White House’s position is that is waiting for the result of investigations because Israel claimed that many of those killed died in a stampede near the convoy.
The Times of Israel reported that U.S. President Joe Biden had a phone call with the leaders of Egypt and Qatar to discuss the “tragic and alarming incident.” Israel has come out and blamed the rush for food as the cause of most of the deaths. An IDF spokesman said, “We didn't fire at the aid seekers – neither from the air nor from the ground.”
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro announced in response to the reported attack that his country will suspend “all arms purchases from Israel.”
“More than 100 Palestinians who were begging for food, were murdered by Netanyahu. This is called genocide and reminds us of the Holocaust even if the world powers do not like to recognize it,” Petro said.
The U.S. earlier this month shot down a widely embraced resolution at the UN that called for ceasefire—marking the third time since the Gaza genocide broke out that Washington killed a push to end the violence in the battered enclave.
Algeria brought the ceasefire agreement to the floor and its UN ambassador, Amar Bendjama, told the Security Council that a vote for the draft resolution is a “support to the Palestinians right to life,” the Associated Press reported. “Conversely, voting against it implies an endorsement of the brutal violence and collective punishment inflicted against them.”
(It should be noted that Algeria also drafted this most recent resolution.)
The U.S. has been accused of “shielding Israel again even as it commits the most shocking crimes while exposing millions of innocent #Palestinian civilians to the wrath (of Israelis) & more untold horrors…It is not Israel that should be protected by the veto; it is Palestinian children, women & men that must be protected by the Council acting now.”
Meanwhile in New Zealand the government makes it very clear it supports collective punishment, terrorism, and genocide. This of course does not represent the view of the New Zealand people, despite how the lying media present it (possibly why one of the main MSM outlets here has just gone belly up).
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510499/government-designates-political-wing-of-hamas-a-terrorist-entity
They didn't check out the evidence when they rushed to bomb Syria and Libya.