The U.S. on Thursday vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resolution calling for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent” cease-fire in Gaza.
The draft resolution expressed “grave concern at Israel's ongoing expansion of its military operation in Gaza and the deepening of the suffering of civilians as a result.”
It called on Israeli authorities to immediately reverse their decision to further the military operation in Gaza and rejected “any attempt at demographic or territorial change” in the enclave.
Denmark proposed the draft resolution on behalf of the Security Council's elected 10 members – Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Pakistan, Panama, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and Somalia – and it received 14 votes.
Before the vote, Denmark’s U.N. envoy, Christina Markus Lassen, said, “Today we'll take action on an important resolution. It focuses on three urgent and immediate demands; demands that many member states have made time and time again, no more and no less.”
