US Vetoes Call for Gaza Cease-fire at UN
Voice of America
Displaced Palestinians check their belongings in a tiny coastal area of a territory named Al-Mawasi after Israeli tanks reportedly raided the sector, west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb. 21, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, center front, votes against a resolution concerning a ceasefire in Gaza during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Feb. 20, 2024. Palestinians stand around relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a morgue in Rafah, Feb. 21, 2024.
The Israeli military said Wednesday it carried out airstrikes in northern and southern Gaza, a day after the United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that called for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire, scaled up aid access and rejected the forced displacement of Palestinians.
