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    The United States on Tuesday vetoed an Arab-backed and widely supported UN resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in the embattled Gaza Strip, saying it would interfere with negotiations on a deal to free hostages abducted in Israel.

    The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 13-1 with the United Kingdom abstaining, reflecting the strong support from countries around the globe for ending the more than four-month war, which started when Hamas militants invaded southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 250 others hostage. Since then, more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel鈥檚 military offensive, according to the Gaza Health Ministry which says the vast majority were women and children.

    It was the third U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza and came a day after the United States circulated a rival resolution that would support a temporary cease-fire in Gaza linked to the release of all hostages and call for the lifting of all restrictions on the delivery of humanitarian aid.

    Virtually every council member 鈥 including the United States 鈥 expressed serious concern at the impending catastrophe in Gaza鈥檚 southern city of Rafah, where some 1.5 million Palestinians have sought refuge, if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu goes ahead with his plan to evacuate civilians from the city and move Israel鈥檚 military offensive to the area bordering Egypt, where Israel says Hamas fighters are hiding.

    Before the vote, Algeria鈥檚 UN Ambassador Amar Bendjama, the Arab representative on the council, said: 鈥淭his resolution stands for truth and humanity standing against the advocates for murder and hatred.鈥

    鈥淎 vote in favor of this draft resolution is a support to the Palestinians right to life,鈥 he said. 鈥淐onversely, voting against it implies an endorsement of the brutal violence and collective punishment inflicted against them.鈥

    U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield countered by saying the United States understands the council鈥檚 desire for urgent action but believes the resolution would 鈥渘egatively impact鈥 sensitive negotiations on a hostage deal and pause in fighting for at least six weeks. If that happens, 鈥渨e can take the time to build a more enduring peace,鈥 she said.

    The proposed U.S. resolution, Thomas-Greenfield said, 鈥渨ould do what this text does not 鈥 pressure Hamas to take the hostage deal that is on the table and help secure a pause that allows humanitarian assistance to reach Palestinian civilians in desperate need.鈥

    She told reporters later that the Arab draft did not link the release of the hostages to a cease-fire, which would give Hamas a halt to fighting without requiring it to take any action. That would have mean 鈥渢hat the fighting would have continued because without the hostage releases we know that the fighting is going to continue,鈥 she said.

    Israel鈥檚 U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan said the word cease-fire is used in the Security Council, the General Assembly and by UN officials 鈥渁s if it is a silver bullet, a magical solution to all of the region鈥檚 problems.鈥

    He called that 鈥渁n absurd notion,鈥 warning that a cease-fire in Gaza would enable Hamas to rearm and regroup and 鈥渢heir next attempted genocide against Israelis will only be a question of when, not if.鈥 He pointed to Hamas statements vowing to repeat the atrocities of Oct. 7 鈥渁gain and again and again until Israel is annihilated.鈥

    Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN ambassador, shot back that the "message given today to Israel with this veto is that it can continue to get away with murder.鈥

    He warned that more babies will be killed and orphaned, more children will die of hunger, cold and disease, more families will be threatened with further forced displacement, and Gaza鈥檚 entire 2.3 million population will be left without food, water, medicine and shelter.

    And in a sharply critical message to the United States, Israel鈥檚 closest ally, Mansour said: 鈥淚t means that human lives that could have been saved are instead being forsaken to Israel鈥檚 genocidal war machine, deliberately, knowingly, by those who oppose a cease-fire.鈥

    What happens next remains to be seen.

    The 22-nation Arab Group could take its resolution to the UN General Assembly, which includes all 193 U.N. member nations, where it is virtually certain to be approved. But unlike Security Council resolutions, assembly resolutions are not legally binding. Mansour indicated this is an option under consideration.

    Thomas-Greenfield told the council the United States 鈥渨ill work in earnest in negotiating鈥 on its proposed resolution, leaving time for all council members to comment, 鈥渞ather than impose an arbitrary deadline for the vote.鈥

    The United States must also defend its veto of the resolution at a General Assembly meeting within 10 days.

    The defeated Arab-backed resolution would have demanded an immediate humanitarian cease-fire to be respected by all parties, which implies an end to the war.

    By contrast, the U.S. draft resolution would underscore the Security Council鈥檚 support for a temporary cease-fire 鈥渁s soon as practicable, based on the formula of all hostages being released,鈥 and call for 鈥渓ifting all barriers to the provision of humanitarian assistance at scale.鈥

    It is the first time the U.S. has used the word 鈥渃ease-fire,鈥 as opposed to cessation of hostilities.

    The Arab draft would also have demanded the immediate release of all hostages, rejected the forced displacement of Palestinian civilians, called for unhindered humanitarian access throughout Gaza, and reiterated council demands that Israel and Hamas 鈥渟crupulously comply鈥 with international law, especially the protection of civilians.

    Without naming either party, it would have condemned 鈥渁ll acts of terrorism鈥 and reiterated the council鈥檚 鈥渦nwavering commitment鈥 to a two-state solution with two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side in peace.

    In measures sure to anger Israel 鈥 and reinforce differences and tensions between U.S. President Joe Biden and Israel鈥檚 Netanyahu 鈥 the U.S. draft resolution reiterates the same unwavering commitment to a two-state solution, which the Israeli leader opposes.

    Biden has repeatedly called on Israel to protect Palestinian civilians, and the draft resolution says Israel鈥檚 planned major ground offensive in Rafah 鈥渟hould not proceed under current circumstances.鈥

    And it warns that further displacement of civilians, 鈥渋ncluding potentially into neighboring countries,鈥 a reference to Egypt, would have serious implications for regional peace and security.

    In another criticism directed at Israel, the U.S. draft 鈥渃ondemns calls by government ministers for the resettlement of Gaza and rejects an attempt at demographic or territorial change in Gaza that would violate international law.鈥

    Russia鈥檚 UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia, who has sought a cease-fire since mid-October, accused the United States of 鈥渄uplicitous and hypocritical calls鈥 for the council to wait for diplomacy to produce results on a hostage deal.

    鈥淚t could not yield any results because the real goal of Washington is not to achieve peace in the Middle East, not to protect civilians, but rather to advance their geopolitical agenda, demanding at any cost for their closest Middle East ally to be shielded,鈥 Nebenzia told the council, claiming that the U.S. has given 鈥渁n effective license for Israel to kill Palestinians.鈥

    While this was the third U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, the council has adopted two resolutions on Gaza where the U.S. abstained.

    Its first resolution, on Nov. 15, called for 鈥渦rgent and extended humanitarian pauses鈥 in Gaza to address the escalating crisis for Palestinian civilians during Israel鈥檚 aerial and ground attacks. In late November, a seven-day pause led to the release of 120 hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Israel鈥檚 release of 200 Palestinian prisoners.

    On Dec. 22, the council adopted a watered-down resolution calling for immediately speeding aid deliveries to hungry and desperate civilians in Gaza, but without the original plea for an 鈥渦rgent suspension of hostilities鈥 between Israel and Hamas.

    It did call for 鈥渃reating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.鈥 The steps are not defined, but diplomats said it was the council鈥檚 first reference to stopping fighting. Because of ongoing fighting and no new humanitarian pause, little aid has gotten into Gaza.

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