The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the war in Gaza because it is not linked to an immediate release of hostages taken captive by Hamas in Israel in October 2023.
      • danekrae@lemmy.world
        71·
        5 months ago

        Good one.

        Every country has problems with school shootings, homeless, institutional racism, voting for billionaire backed criminal dictators, PFAS and lead, insane wealth gaps and I can go on and on. So why pick on a shit hole country?

    • fukhueson@lemmy.worldBanned from communityOP
      95·
      5 months ago

      Honestly don’t understand how hostages weren’t a required part of that resolution.

      Edited to include the “required” component. There is nothing requiring a hostage release with the ceasefire, to clarify my initial statement.

      • Sundial@lemm.ee
        92·
        5 months ago

        It was. Just not the way Israel wanted. So the US vetoed it for them.

        • fukhueson@lemmy.worldBanned from communityOP
          24·
          5 months ago

          It wasn’t the way the us wanted it. They’ve held since the beginning of this that hostages must be released if a ceasefire is established. This resolution did not require that.

          https://usun.usmission.gov/explanation-of-vote-on-a-un-security-council-resolution-on-the-situation-in-the-middle-east/

          We made clear throughout negotiations we could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages.

          Because, as this Council has previously called for, a durable end to the war must come with the release of the hostages. These two urgent goals are inextricably linked.

          This resolution abandoned that necessity, and for that reason, the United States could not support it.

          Simply put, this resolution would have sent a dangerous message to Hamas: There’s no need to come back to the negotiating table.

          • Sundial@lemm.ee
            43·
            5 months ago

            Everyone knows Hamas would not have accepted releasing the hostages unconditionally. This ceasefire proposal was the product of weeks/months of back and forth and where everyone on both sides agreed was the best way to move forward as it involved concessions on both sides. The US then vetoed it last minute since the killing Palestinians is more important than anything else.

            • fukhueson@lemmy.worldBanned from communityOP
              33·
              5 months ago

              The source I provided does not support your opinion.

              Rather than adopting a resolution that emboldens Hamas, let’s instead demand Hamas implement Resolution 2735 without further condition or delay.

              https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15723.doc.htm

              By resolution 2735 (2024) (to be issued as document S/RES/2735(2024)), the 15-member organ noted that the implementation of this proposal would enable the following outcomes to spread over three phases, the first of which would include an immediate, full and complete ceasefire with the release of hostages; the return of the remains of some hostages who have been killed; the exchange of Palestinian prisoners; withdrawal of Israeli forces from the populated areas in Gaza; the return of Palestinian civilians to their homes; and the safe and effective distribution of humanitarian assistance at scale throughout Gaza.

              • Sundial@lemm.ee
                52·
                5 months ago

                Hamas and the Palestinian Authority both accepted this resolution.

                • fukhueson@lemmy.worldBanned from communityOP
                  24·
                  5 months ago

                  Sinwar did not accept it, so no, Hamas officially did not accept it. While members of Hamas had taken it favorably, he did not, and that’s what counts.

      • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
        46·
        5 months ago

        I do. Hamas won’t give them up, so a ceasefire including them is irrelevant. They’d much rather blame the israe for noncompliance