#U.N. Security Council votes for ceasefire in Gaza

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COMMUNITY WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: The following ABC News article, ‘Mothers in Gaza are watching their children slowly starve to death and are unable to stop it’, contains graphic pictures and descriptions of war that some viewers may find distressing.

Watin has lost half her body weight in the past five months — from 14 kilograms down to 7kg. (Photo: ABC News)

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Mothers in Gaza are watching their children slowly starve to death and are unable to stop it

Since the war started after the October 7 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, the country has increased its siege on Gaza, and it largely controls the entry of goods — including food, water, medical supplies and fuel.

Internal food sources have been depleted in the enclave and more than 2 million Palestinians inside are largely reliant on humanitarian aid to survive.

But for months, the supplies reaching the enclave have been a fraction of what is needed.

UN officials have cited Israeli inspections, Israeli strikes on aid convoys and the killing of Gazan policemen (who were escorting aid deliveries) by Israel as some of the obstacles to effective aid delivery.

By Middle East correspondent Allyson Horn in Jerusalem and ABC staff in Gaza

ABC News - 20 March 2024

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To survive, families in Gaza have been making bread from animal feed. (Photo: ABC News)

Young children are growing up in the shadow of war. (Photo: ABC News)

Maazize Nabhan's children sit gathered around a fire among the ruins of their home in northern Gaza. (Photo: ABC News)

To curb their hunger, the children gather sticks to mix into their tea. (Photo: ABC News)

Cherihan Chaher Askar makes "soup" out of water and weeds pulled from the ground. (Photo: ABC News)

The weeds Cherihan's husband picks with his son are used to make soup. (Photo: ABC News)

Inside Gaza, this family is forced to eat bread made from animal feed and tea made from sticks

Maazize Nabhan's young children hold what appears to be crumbly pieces of bread in their small hands as they sit around a fire in Gaza.

But the flat, palm-sized discs are actually ground up animal food, clumped together and shaped to look like an everyday meal.

It's the only nourishment the mother has to offer her desperately hungry children as starvation inside parts of Gaza reaches catastrophic levels.

Since the attack by Hamas on October 7, Israel has imposed a siege on Gaza, where it controls the entry of nearly all the goods, including essential aid such as food.

Large areas of agricultural land have been destroyed during the war, so most families are relying on humanitarian supplies.

At the fire, Maazize is also boiling some tea flavoured with sticks and leaves her family scavenged off the ground.

By Middle East correspondent Allyson Horn in Jerusalem and ABC staff in Gaza

ABC News - 23 February 2024

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The UN resolution passed after the United States abstained from voting.

(Photo: Reuters: Andrew Kelly)

Relations between Netanyahu and Biden are at an all-time low. (Photo: AP / Evan Vucci)

America has said to Israel that enough is enough. But how far is Benjamin Netanyahu willing to push the friendship?

Washington's decision to allow a vote at the United Nations Security Council that Israel did not want indicates a new low between the United States and Israel.

It further isolates Israel. The US, its strongest supporter, has finally said enough is enough.

The US has been trying for months to get Israel to change the way it's been prosecuting the war in Gaza.

US officials have made clear that Israel has been killing too many civilians since the war began after Hamas' atrocities in southern Israel on October 7.

Months ago, President Joe Biden described Israel's bombing of Gaza as "indiscriminate" – a damning description of this tactic in one of the most densely-populated places on Earth.

By global affairs editor John Lyons

ABC News - 26 March 2024

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US vetoed ceasefire for Gaza again. UK abstained.

The United States vetoed a resolution at the United Nations Security Council Friday demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, as civilian casualties rise amid Israel’s military campaign against the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The resolution, introduced by the United Arab Emirates, was a priority for U.N. Security General Antonio Guterres, who invoked Article 99 of the U.N. Charter to bring the issue to the immediate attention of the Security Council. Guterres had urged member states to demand an immediate cease-fire in light of an impending “humanitarian catastrophe” in the Gaza Strip.

It was supported by 13 out of the 15 members of the Security Council. The U.S., which holds veto power as a permanent member, voted against the resolution. The United Kingdom, another permanent member, abstained.

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Anyways if you live in US and. Have a phone number. Call the UN ambassador at 212-415-4000 (opt. 6) and urge for a ceasefire vote. The UN Security Council is ready on basically all fonts to vote for it but ofc america is threatening to veto, and as one of the 5 permanent member states they have that power.

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More than one hundred University of Vermont students took to the university’s central campus on Sunday to form a Palestine solidarity encampment, joining many other campuses nationwide and across the world to force higher education institutions to divest from weapons manufacturers and Israeli investments directly involved in the occupation of Palestine and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.  The encampment began at 2:00pm with more than a dozen tents, but ballooned over the afternoon and evening. By late Sunday night — despite heavy rains and soggy grass — there were roughly thirty tents on the Andrew Harris Commons, the green space between the Davis Center and Howe Library, with more on the way. Along with echoing national demands of academic boycotts and divestment of Israeli institutions, UVM students also demand the withdrawal of UVM’s selection for its 2024 commencement speaker: Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations. In three separate U.N. ceasefire resolutions, Thomas-Greenfield vetoed each of them, and casting the lone ‘no’ vote for two U.N. Security Council resolutions. She also voted against a U.N. General Assembly resolution for a humanitarian ceasefire. These actions have enabled the continued genocide of Gaza, in which over 34,000 have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023. As if her stance wasn’t clear enough from her actions at the U.N., during Thomas-Greenfield’s confirmation hearings in 2021, she called the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement (BDS) “unacceptable” and that it “verges on antisemitism.” 

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Soon after students began assembling Sunday afternoon, UVM administrators and police started making a series of ultimatums and deadlines for students to disperse, lest they face potential suspension, citation, and arrest. With students collectively deciding each time to stay put, by around 10:00 pm the administration agreed not to take any actions against students at the encampment before 8:30 am Monday. By that time, the administration insisted that all tents be removed from the green, though students could remain assembled there. Shortly after word of UVM administration’s concession made it through the crowd, UVM police officers approached some of the campers to restate UVM policy in a manner that some students found contrary to what had just been agreed.

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The students at the encampment have made the following demands of the UVM administration: 1. DISCLOSE all financial investments within UVM’s $800 million endowment. 2. DIVEST from all weapon manufacturers, Israeli companies, and companies involved in the occupation of historic Palestine. 3. ACADEMIC BOYCOTT of Israeli institutions. 4. CANCEL Linda Thomas-Greenfield as speaker for UVM’s 2024 commencement and revoke her planned honorary degree from UVM. 5. AMNESTY for all students engaged in protests for Palestinian freedom, and a guarantee of no charges for protestors.

“We have people talking to the administration to figure out what a conversation might look like to implement our demands,” James said. “But as of right now, it’s difficult because the administration seems generally unwilling to talk to us beyond telling us that we’re breaking the rules, or we need to disperse.”

-- From "UVM Students Build Solidarity Encampment for Palestine" by Matt Moore for The Rake Vermont, 29 Apr 2024

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🇺🇲🇺🇳 🚨 UNITED STATES VETOES UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON GAZA

The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Friday, calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

United States deputy representative to the U.N., Robert Wood, called the ceasefire resolution "divorced from reality" and said it "would not have moved the needle forward on the ground", according to Al Mayadeen News.

The results of the Gaza ceasefire resolution were as follows:

In Favor: 13

Against: 1 (U.S.)

Abstain: 1 (U.K.)

Thirteen Security Council members voted in favor of the resolution, which was presented and sponsored by the UAE.

The United Kingdom abstained from voting while the United States vetoed the resolution.

The UAE representative to the U.N. is quoted as saying, "The United Arab Emirates is deeply disappointed."

"Regrettably... this council is unable to demand a humanitarian ceasefire."

Today, the Gaza Ministry of Health announced that the death toll in Gaza has risen 17'487 killed, over 70% of which are women and children.

Over the past 24 hours, more than 300 Palestinians have been killed and 600 wounded from Israeli air strikes and shelling.

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By John Parker

After the U.S. killed the U.N. Security Council resolution for a ceasefire on Dec. 8 — and today delayed another vote of the Security Council demanding an immediate ceasefire — Washington continues to pour gas on the fires in Gaza.

“It’s just awful,” said one of the U.S. embassy representatives in Cairo, Egypt, about the killing going on in Gaza. With a bowed head with apparent frustration at their supposed inability to stop the killing in Gaza, the embassy representatives told our U.S. delegation of World Conscience Convoy participants nothing of value.

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US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding Gaza ceasefire

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it was not linked to the release of hostages, saying it would embolden Hamas militants. All 14 other members of the council voted in favor of the resolution, which described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “catastrophic” and called on…

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UN Security Council to vote on demand for Gaza ceasefire

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council will vote Wednesday on a resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the Trump administration is expected to veto it because it does not link the ceasefire to the release of all the hostages held by Hamas. The resolution before the U.N.’s most powerful body also does not condemn Hamas’ deadly attack in Israel on Oct. 7,…

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Important addendum: The reason why the US is threatening to veto is because the resolution runs counter to their own plan, which the government believes is more effective than the resolution put forth:

U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in a statement that the United States has been working on a hostage deal for months that would bring at least a six-week period of calm “from which we could then take the time and the steps to build a more enduring peace.”

She said U.S. President Joe Biden has had multiple calls over the last week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the leaders of Egypt and Qatar to push the deal forward.

“Though gaps remain, the key elements are on the table” and it remains the best opportunity to reunite hostages with their families and enable a prolonged pause in fighting which would allow lifesaving aid to get to Palestinian civilians who desperately need it, Thomas-Greenfield said. Qatar said Saturday the talks “have not been progressing as expected.”

By contrast, the Arab-backed resolution wouldn’t achieve those outcomes, “and indeed, may run counter to them,” she said. “For that reason, the United States does not support action on this draft resolution. Should it come up for a vote as drafted, it will not be adopted.”

Source: https://apnews.com/article/un-resolution-gaza-ceasefire-united-states-veto-rafah-fef955351990f0bd54d0495c9954d2d2

UK babes there's another ceasefire vote happening on Wednesday 21st Feb

Everyone should be emailing their MP pushing for them to vote for a ceasefire

Go here for your MPs details and a email template. We need to be forcing their hands about this. Email them every minute if you have to. Make them hear you.

Also, if you can get to parliament on Wednesday between 11:30-4pm, Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be lobbying MPs as they go to vote. You dont need to be an expert, just register to join them here. They'll tell you everything you need to know.

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Israel Against The World – With US Aid

by Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. | Jan 17, 2025

I once represented a man charged with first-degree murder.  At the preliminary hearing, the courtroom was filled with the family and friends of the victim.

When my client was led out of the holding cell, the officer who brought him out leaned over and whispered to me: “Boy, it’s you against the world – you against the world.”

Today it’s Israel against the world, aided and abetted by the US due to mega millions in campaign contributions.

On Nov. 20, the US cast the only “No” vote in the U.N. Security Council against a call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The rest of the world has never been so united as it is now against what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people.

Some American Christians are afraid to criticize Israel because it says in the Bible that those who bless Israel will be blessed.

But it also says in both the Old Testament and the New Testament that God wants us to “seek peace and pursue it.” And one of the strongest of the Ten Commandments is “Thou shalt not kill.”

My own Christian beliefs lead me to believe that God will punish those who have killed – and are still killing – thousands of little children in Gaza.

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U.S. Ambassador to U.N. on the Security Council's vote for a ceasefire in Gaza

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U.S. Ambassador to U.N. on the Security Council's vote for a ceasefire in Gaza

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

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..."The United Nations Security Council on Monday demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages after the United States abstained from the vote.

The remaining 14 council members voted for the resolution, which was proposed by the 10 elected members of the body.

"The Palestinian people has suffered greatly. This bloodbath has continued for far too long. It is our obligation to put an end to this bloodbath, before it is too late," Algeria's U.N. Ambassador Amar Bendjama told the council after the vote.

Israeli army radio reported shortly before the council meeting started that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would cancel a planned delegation to Washington if the U.S. did not veto the resolution.

Washington had been averse to the word ceasefire earlier in the nearly six-month-old war in the Gaza Strip and had used its veto power shield U.S. ally Israel as it retaliated against Hamas for an Oct. 7 attack that Israel says killed 1,200 people.

But amid growing global pressure for a truce in the war that has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians, the U.S. abstained from the vote on Monday to allow the Security Council to demand an immediate ceasefire for the month of Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which ends in two weeks.

The resolution also demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. Israel says Hamas took 253 hostages during its Oct. 7 attack.

"The United States support for these objectives is not simply rhetorical. We're working around the clock to make them real on the ground through diplomacy, because we know that it is only through diplomacy that we can push this agenda forward," said U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

"A ceasefire can begin immediately with the release of the first hostage and so we must put pressure on Hamas to do just that," she said.

Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. abstained from the vote because it did not agree with everything in the resolution and the text did not include a condemnation of Hamas.

The Security Council resolution also "emphasizes the urgent need to expand the flow of humanitarian assistance to and reinforce the protection of civilians in the entire Gaza Strip and reiterates its demand for the lifting of all barriers to the provision of humanitarian assistance at scale."

The U.S. has vetoed three draft council resolutions on the war in Gaza. It has also previously abstained twice, allowing the council to adopt resolutions that aimed to boost aid to Gaza and called for extended pauses in fighting."