U.S. vetos UN Security Council resolution for immediate, unconditional ceasefire in Gaza

Fourteen states on the Security Council spent days crafting a resolution that included the release of all hostages, the exchange of Palestinian prisoners, the return of the remains of hostages who have been killed, the return of Palestinian civilians to their homes in all areas of Gaza, and a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.

U.S. President Joe Biden, pictured in Ottawa on March 24, 2023. The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling the immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which Doug Roche says in an egregious use of the veto.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

November 25, 2024

EDMONTON—It doesn’t matter about the mounting deaths of innocent people in Gaza that have reached genocidal proportions. It doesn’t matter that 14 other members of the UN Security Council want an immediate ceasefire. It doesn’t matter that the Biden administration wa...

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