Frustration flares at UN over lack of Gaza cease-fire

Slovenia Ambassador Samuel Zbogar attends a U.N. Security Council meeting about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, at U.N. headquarters in New York, Sept. 4, 2024. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield attends a Security Council meeting about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, at U.N. headquarters in New York, Sept. 4, 2024. Ambassador Danny Danon, Israel's U.N. representative, holds a picture of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a Hamas hostage whose body was found in the Gaza Strip, during a Security Council meeting about the Israel-Hamas conflict, in New York, Sept. 4, 2024.

U.N. Security Council members expressed frustration Wednesday with the failure to conclude a cease-fire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas, amid the killing of six Israeli hostages and the escalation of violence in the West Bank.