US Gaza ceasefire vote - why did it fail?

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🗓️ 23 March 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The US has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the first time as secretary of state Antony Blinken lands in Tel Aviv for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. An American-sponsored resolution demanding a truce was rejected by the UN Security Council. The US policy change comes amid fears the Palestinian territory could be on the brink of famine. On the Daily, Niall Paterson talks to our Middle East correspondent Alistair Bunkall about how much US support for Israel is wavering.

Plus, Sky’s special correspondent Alex Crawford discusses the importance of being able to report freely from inside Gaza - something she and other foreign journalists have been unable to do since Hamas's attack on southern Israel on 7 October.
The war has meant images and information from inside Gaza have mostly come from a few Palestinian journalists in the territory. Foreign journalists can only report in Gaza while accompanied by Israeli authorities, who say it is for safety reasons.

Senior producer: Annie Joyce
Producer: Alex Edden and Sydney Pead
Assistant producer: Iona Brunker
Editor: Wendy Parker

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1:01.0	Welcome to the Sky News Daily. For the first time, the US has called for an end to the fighting in Gaza.
1:08.2	The call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire at the UN Security Council
1:12.2	was voted down, but the change of tone from Washington is still significant. As Secretary of State,
1:19.0	Anthony Blinken, landed in Tel Aviv for emergency talks with Binium and Netanyahu. He urged him
1:24.1	not to launch a ground assault into the border town of Rafa,
1:30.9	whilst the threat of famine in northern Gaza is rising.
1:35.3	Foreign journalists are still struggling to gain unrestricted access to the territory to report on exactly what is happening.
1:38.8	Most of the time, it's very difficult to work out what's real and what's not real.
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1:46.5	an activist. I want to get on the ground, crunch on that rubble and find out what's going on.
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