The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, rejected this Saturday the United States' veto of a resolution presented to the United Nations Security Council that called for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and an end to the genocide of Palestinian civilians by Israel.
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Díaz-Canel demanded that the impunity with which the Zionist entity, which has never been held accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian population because it is protected by the US, acts once and for all. “Enough of impunity for Israel. History does.” “We will never forget those who could have stopped the genocide but did not,” he stressed.
The US once again vetoes a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Meanwhile, the murder of children, women and an entire city continues. Enough impunity for Israel. History will never forget those who could have stopped the genocide but failed to do so.#FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/qdnFaSrVdy
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB)
December 9, 2023
The Cuban president responded to the events during the Security Council meeting, held on Friday at the request of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in which the US spoke out against a ceasefire in Gaza that has lasted for 64 days The Israeli siege left more than 17,000 Palestinians murdered and more than 40,000 injured.
U.S. Rep. Robert Wood refused to support a cessation of hostilities or pressure Tel Aviv to stop its war crimes in Gaza.
A resolution presented by the United Arab Emirates and supported by Russia and China as well as all Arab and Islamic countries proposed the establishment of a ceasefire in this Palestinian territory.
Guterres invoked Article 99 of the United Nations Charter to convene the meeting after he considered that there was a serious threat to security following significant atrocities committed by the Zionist organization in Gaza.
Addressing the Security Council, Guterres stated that “international humanitarian law cannot be applied selectively. It is binding on all parties equally and at all times, and the obligation to respect it is not dependent on reciprocity.”
After the diplomat rejected what he called “violations of the laws of war” by the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas during the Al-Aqsa flooding operation in the occupied Palestinian territories (on October 7 last year), he stated that this was not Israel's responsibility Martial law gives rise to its own violations.
Of all Security Council members, 13 voted in favor of the resolution – including China and Russia – with the UK abstaining and the US voting against it.
Russia's representative Dimitri Polianski said that with its decision, the US “imposed a death sentence on thousands more, if not tens of thousands, of civilians in Palestine and Israel, including women and children, as well as the UN personnel on trial.” Help them.