US vetoes UN resolution demanding cease-fire in Gaza
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🗓️ 21 February 2024
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday, February 21st, 2024. |
| 0:17.0 | This is the excerpt. |
| 0:29.8 | Today, what's next for the Israel-Hama's war after the U.S. vetoed a ceasefire resolution. Plus the Supreme Court declines to take on a school diversity case and charges have been made in the wake of the Kansas City shooting. |
| 0:38.0 | The US yesterday vetoed an Arab-backed UN resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamass War. |
| 0:45.5 | The 13-1 Security Council vote further isolates the U.S. on Israel's side in a conflict that continues |
| 0:51.5 | to stir up global outrage. |
| 0:53.2 | For its part, Britain abstained from the vote. |
| 0:55.7 | The US has already vetoed two similar resolutions. |
| 0:59.2 | US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas Greenfield called the vote, quote, |
| 1:03.9 | wishful thinking and irresponsible, unquote. |
| 1:07.0 | She said in a statement that the US has been working |
| 1:09.5 | on a hostage deal and six-week truce that could serve as the first step |
| 1:14.0 | toward building a long-term solution to the crisis. |
| 1:17.0 | And she said that demanding an immediate ceasefire |
| 1:19.0 | without an agreement requiring Hamas to release hostages will not bring a durable peace. |
| 1:25.0 | A draft U.S. resolution would call for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, |
| 1:29.0 | contingent on all hostages being freed. |
| 1:32.0 | The resolution would urge Israel to abandon plans to invade Rafa |
| 1:36.0 | the southern Gazan city filled with refugees who have fled violence elsewhere in the territory. |
| 1:41.0 | Meanwhile the UN World Food Program said yesterday that it's pausing deliveries in northern |
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