The US blocks condemnation of Israel’s attack on an aid delivery in the UN Security Council

The United States has blocked in the United Nations Security Council a statement of condemnation presented by Algeria after the murder of more than 100 Palestinians in an Israeli attack while they were waiting to receive a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza City, located in the north of the Gaza Strip , an incident that also left more than 700 injured, according to Gazan authorities.

The meeting was held yesterday afternoon, at the request of Algeria, and was closed. It was the Palestinian permanent representative to the UN, Riad Mansur, who reported on the result of the vote: 14 of the 15 members of the UN Security Council supported the statement, with the exception of the United States, as reported by the Qatari television network Al Jazeera. The deputy representative of the United States, Robert Wood, has argued that Washington “does not have all the facts on the ground.” “That is the problem,” said Wood, who has assured that the US authorities are trying to verify “the circumstances around the death of these people” to try to see if it is possible to “find a language that everyone agrees with.

The US has already blocked several calls for a ceasefire in Gaza in the past

The international community has condemned what happened in Gaza. Meanwhile, the Israeli Army has attributed most of the victims to a stampede, limiting the number of people who were shot dead by its own troops to around 10.