The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Wednesday calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. was the only \u201cno\u201d vote, against 14 \u201cyes\u201d votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield explained<\/a> that the U.S. had vetoed the resolution because it did not include the release of 101 Israeli hostages as a condition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We made clear throughout negotiations we could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This resolution abandoned that necessity, and for that reason, the United States could not support it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Simply put, this resolution would have sent a dangerous message to Hamas: There\u2019s no need to come back to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The veto came as a relief to Israel, which is watching the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s lame duck weeks warily. President Barack Obama used his lame-duck days to allow an anti-Israel resolution to pass<\/a> at the Security Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier this year, the Biden-Harris administration allowed<\/a> a flawed resolution to pass that did not make a ceasefire conditional on the release of hostages, even though it did mention the hostages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n