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US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza
The United States on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate ceasefire in the intense fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The United States' deputy representative at the UN, Robert Wood, said the resolution was "divorced from reality" and "would have not moved the needle forward on the ground." Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
The United States on Friday vetoed a UN Security Councilresolution that would have called for an immediate ceasefire in the intense fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter to urge the organisation’s most powerful body to call for a ceasefire.
- Heavy urban combat raged in and around Gaza's biggest cities on Friday, with major battles reported in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north and Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
- Israel and the UN signalled that the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel into the Gaza Strip might be opened soon to allow aid in. Since the start of the war, the tightly controlled Rafah border between Gaza and Egypthas been the only point of entry into the enclave.
- Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on October 7, killing 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages, according to the Israeli government. Since then, at least 17,487 people have been killed in Israel's ensuing assault on the Gaza Strip, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry said. At least 46,000 people have been injured and at least 7,600 people are missing, the Hamas media office said.
Note: MOST OF PEOPLE "KILLED BY HAMAS" ON OCTOBER 7, WERE ACTUALLY KILLED BY IDF (ISRAELI DEFENCE FORCES)...
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- By Gus Leonisky at 9 Dec 2023 - 11:10am
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The US has cast the lone dissenting vote against a proposed UN Security Council resolution that would have demanded a humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war amid rising civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip.
Thirteen member states voted in favor of the resolution, which was put forward by the United Arab Emirates, on Friday in New York. The UK abstained, leaving Washington diplomatically isolated in blocking the measure.
“What is the message we are sending Palestinians if we cannot unite behind a call to halt the relentless bombardment of Gaza?”Deputy UAE UN Ambassador Mohamed Abushahab asked members of the council. “Indeed, what is the message we are sending civilians across the world who may find themselves in similar situations?”
Friday’s vote came after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres invoked Article 99, a rarely used provision in the UN charter, to warn the Security Council of an impending “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza. He said that with the war raging on for two months and counting, the humanitarian support net in Gaza faces a “severe risk of collapse.”
More than 17,000 Palestinians have been killed and 1.9 million people have been displaced since the war began in October. Hamas triggered the war by launching surprise attacks against villages in southern Israel on October 7, killing an estimated 1,200 people and taking hundreds of hostages back to Gaza.
US officials have opposed a general ceasefire because it would only help Hamas retain its grip on power in Gaza. A week-long ceasefire late last month enabled the release of 110 Hamas hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinians who had been incarcerated in Israeli jails. It also bought time for aid workers to bring more humanitarian supplies into the besieged Palestinian enclave.
READ MORE: US ‘helping Gaza most’ – White HouseThe US mission to the UN said in a statement that it opposed the ceasefire resolution because the “rushed” proposal was “divorced from reality” and would “only plant the seeds for the next war.”Washington’s suggestions for revising the resolution were largely ignored, deputy US UN Ambassador Robert Wood said. Among other concerns, he added, the document failed to include language condemning the Hamas attacks.
“Women, children, the elderly – people from a range of nationalities – burned alive, gunned down, subject to obscene sexual violence,” Wood said. “We are very disappointed that for the victims of these heinous acts, the resolution’s authors offered not their condolences, nor condemnation of their murderers. It’s unfathomable.”
https://www.rt.com/news/588774-gaza-un-usa/
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According to a report by Jackson, Jr., Robert J. and Mitts, Joshua, titled Trading on Terror?, a number of unknown traders on the New York Stock Exchange bet on the imminent collapse of Israeli stocks in the month preceding the attack of the Palestinian resistance attack [1].
American finance company MSCI manages funds that are traded on the stock market (Exchange-traded funds). One of them oversees all Israeli companies, with the option of speculating on the rise or fall of their values. Five days before the October 7 attack, bets against the value of Israeli companies spiked to 227,000 – versus an average of a few thousand a day.
During the 20 days following the attack, these stocks lost an average of 17.5% of their value.
A similar phenomenon, on a lesser scale, occurred on April 3, the date of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s dismissal. However, at that time, the general public was unaware that he had been let go for having alerted his fellow-ministers to a Hamas attack in the offing.
The investors who therefore made a fortune on October 7 are necessarily linked to the organizers of the attack. An identical episode was observed during the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States: investors had bet on the collapse of the airline companies impacted by the attacks as well as the manager of the World Trade Center. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had identified them, but did not release their names or take legal action.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article220114.html
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