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The Biden administration voted against a United Nations Security Council resolution that aimed to extend full member status to a Palestinian state Thursday. The final vote was 12 in favor, one against, with two countries — the United Kingdom and Switzerland — abstaining. If the resolution had been approved by the council, the issue would […]
Rafah invasion would be a ‘mistake,’ Kamala Harris warns Israel would making a “mistake” if launches a ground assault on the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday. “We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge […]
Congress voted early Saturday to strip hundreds of millions of dollars from the United Nations agency that distributes most of the food, medicine and basic services to Palestinians in Gaza and across the Middle East, marking what critics say is a devastating blow to a region in crisis. The United States, along with . . […]
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, traveling in the Middle East on Thursday, pressed for a halt to fighting in the Gaza Strip as the United States prepared to introduce a resolution at the United Nations on Friday calling for “an immediate and sustained cease-fire.” The Security Council resolution drafted by the United States contains […]
A U.S.-led resolution calling for an immediate and sustained cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza failed to pass in the United Nations Security Council Friday as Russia and China, who are permanent members, voted against the measure. Vassily Nebenzia, Russia’s ambassador to the U.N., said it was exceedingly politicized and contained an effective green […]
A U.S.-sponsored resolution that strongly condemns restrictions preventing aid from entering Gaza, any attempt to “reduce” its territory, and attacks against civilians as violations of international law, and warns against a military offensive in Rafah, is due for a vote Friday morning at the U.N. Security Council. The resolution also . . .
On Thursday, the United States ended decades of stalwart support for Israel in the United Nations Security Council, submitting a draft resolution that calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The U.S., which negotiated the language of the proposed resolution with the governments of Egypt and Qatar, seeks to have the […]
Israel is using starvation as an ‘intentional weapon of war,’ Rashida Tlaib says in congressional speech Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., accused Israel of committing this century’s worst crimes against humanity during a speech today calling for an immediate cease-fire. Tlaib is the only Palestinian American member of Congress. As she spoke she had two images […]
The United States has submitted a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council calling for “an immediate cease-fire tied to the release of hostages” in Gaza, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, during his latest trip to the region to broker a diplomatic resolution to the war between […]
The United States on Wednesday defended Israel’s decades-long occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, arguing at the U.N.’s highest court that Israel faced “very real security needs.” The defense came a day after the United States issued its third veto against a call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza at the United Nations […]