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U.S. Vetoes Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution at U.N. Security Council [1]

['Farnaz Fassihi']

Date: 2024-11-20

The United States on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, where a humanitarian crisis is intensifying and the fighting shows no signs of ending.

Fourteen Security Council members voted for the resolution, while only the United States voted against it.

The United States said it vetoed the resolution, the fifth the Council has taken up, because it did not make the cease-fire contingent on the release of the hostages held in Gaza. The resolution does call for the release of all hostages, but the wording suggests that their release would come only after a cease-fire were implemented.

The veto was the fourth time the United States blocked an effort by the Council to demand a cease-fire since the war began over a year ago, when Hamas led an attack on Israel and took more than 200 people hostage. More than 40,000 people have been killed in Gaza over the course of the war, according to the local health authorities, and a U.N.-backed panel warned that the territory faces the risk of famine.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/world/middleeast/us-veto-gaza-ceasefire.html

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