The United States on Tuesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire Gaza Stripfaced with renewed Israeli bombings and a serious humanitarian crisis.
The US vetoed the Algerian-sponsored proposal calling for an “immediate ceasefire” and defended an alternative proposal, which the US supported AFPemphasizing “support for a temporary ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas after weeks of unsuccessful mediation to achieve a ceasefire.
The Islamist movement in power in Gaza believed the position gave Washington a “green light.” “More massacres” in the Palestinian territory.
According to him Gaza Ministry of HealthAt least 103 people have been killed in Israeli bombings and fighting in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours.
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The attacks continued on Tuesday evening, killing at least 15 people in a house in Deir al Balah, in the center of the territory, according to the same source. Rafah, in the far south, was also bombed.
The Israeli army said it had eliminated “dozens of terrorists” in “intensive operations” in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, where it has focused its offensive for weeks.
World Health Organization (WHO) announced that 32 patients had been transferred from that city's beleaguered Nasser Hospital and expressed concern about the patients and staff still at the facility.
The NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) He claimed his staff fled the hospital when it was attacked and he still has no word from two workers.
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“How many of us have to die (…) for these crimes to stop?” asked Ahmad Moghrabi, a Palestinian doctor from Khan Younis. “Where is humanity?”
The head of the American branch of Doctors Without Borders He said a ground offensive in Rafah, where nearly 1.4 million Palestinians are seeking refuge, would turn that town on the border with Egypt into a city “Cemetery”.
The war increases famine
- 2.2 million (of Gaza's 2.4 million residents) are on the brink of famine.
- The World Food Program (PMA) of the United Nations announced that it would suspend the distribution of aid in the north of the country Gaza Stripbecause of “total chaos and violence.”
- The WFP resumed deliveries on Sunday, but its trucks were looted by hungry people.