The United Nations Security Council once again portrayed the United States, identified this Thursday as indirectly responsible for the bath of death and pain that occurs in Gaza. To the delight of Russia, two years after the invasion of Ukraine, Washington had to hear again, two days after its third veto, the accusation that it has blood on its hands for preventing an immediate ceasefire to protect Israel .
Christopher Lockyear, Secretary General of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), gave a devastating portrait of the situation on the ground, where children are amputated without anesthesia and pregnant women do not receive care or give birth in plastic tents. . “We have coined a new acronym, WCNSF,” he stressed. That acronym in English stands for “Injured Child Without Surviving Family.”
“It is an Israeli war on the entire Gaza Strip, a war of collective punishment, without rules, a war at all costs,” he denounced in another meeting on the crisis in the Middle East. But, in the iconic Security Council room, Lockyear did not ignore the responsibility of this institution and, specifically, of the United States.
“Together with the world, we have seen how this council and its members have addressed the Gaza conflict. “Meeting after meeting, resolution after resolution, this organization has effectively failed to effectively address this conflict,” he stated. “We have seen members of this council deliberate and delay decisions while civilians die,” he lamented.
“We are disappointed by the willingness of the United States to use its power as a permanent member of the Council to obstruct efforts to adopt the most obvious resolution, one that calls for an immediate and sustained ceasefire,” he charged.
“On three occasions this Council has had the opportunity to vote on a ceasefire, which is what is desperately needed. And on all three occasions the United States has used its veto power, the last one last Tuesday,” he insisted.
Lockyear recalled that Washington presented a draft that included the possibility of stopping hostilities. “This is misleading at best. “This Council must reject any resolution that further hinders humanitarian efforts on the ground and leads this Council to tactically endorse the continuation of violence and mass atrocities in Gaza,” he denounced.
Two days ago, the United States raised for the first time the possibility of a temporary ceasefire at the appropriate time, subject to negotiations to free the at least 130 Israeli hostages held in Gaza since it launched its attack on October 7. Israel, with 1,200 dead.
“The people of Gaza need a ceasefire not when it is practical, but when it is necessary, and this is not a period of calm. Any short-term solution is gross negligence. The protection of civilians in Gaza cannot depend on a resolution in which humanitarian aid is instrumentalized to blur political objectives,” he reiterated.
“This will reverberate throughout the Middle East. “This is not political inaction, this became complicity two days ago,” he concluded in his outburst against the third US veto.
Then the representative of the American mission spoke. In his speech, in which he stressed again that a ceasefire is not possible without the release of the hostages, he did not even thank the MSF leader for his intervention, which is normal practice and what is established by the rules of diplomatic decorum.
