The US rejects this unacceptable resolution. Hamas would have released every hostage long ago, and immediately give up, said one of the US UN ambassadors and deputy ambassador to the Middle East, Morgan Ortagus, before the vote.
The other 14 member countries in the council voted for the resolution, which, among other things, stated that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is "catastrophic" and that Israel must immediately allow aid deliveries to be let into the Gaza Strip and to the 2.1 million Palestinians estimated to remain in Gaza.
The draft resolution had been proposed by ten of the council's ten elected member countries - which sit on two-year mandates but lack veto power – and the wording was sharper than previous draft resolutions. The draft resolution noted, among other things, that the suffering of civilians is "worsened".
But the US chose to once again protect Israel by stopping the resolution.
Previous attempts to propose resolutions have been stopped by the US, among other things with the argument that a ceasefire in Gaza has not been directly linked to the release of hostages from, among other things, terrorist-stamped Hamas.
