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"Palestine UN observer: US ceasefire veto a 'turning point in history'
The US veto of a United Nations resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza is “a turning point in history”, according to Riyad Mansour, the permanent observer of the state of Palestine to the UN.Mansour joined Russia (which failed to acknowledge its own actions in Ukraine while denouncing the “bloodbath” in Gaza) in a strongly worded address to the UN security council following the vote: This is a moment of truth. This is a turning point in history. It is beyond regrettable, it is disastrous, that the security council was again prevented from rising to this moment to uphold its clear responsibilities in the face of this grave crisis threatening human lives and threatening regional and international peace and security. Millions of Palestinian lives hang in the balance. Every single one of them is sacred, worth saving. [But] instead of allowing this council to uphold its mandate by finally making a clear call after two months of massacres that atrocities must end, the war criminals are given more time to perpetuate their crimes. How can this be justified? How can anyone justify the slaughter of an entire people? Those who were advocating for a prolonging of the assault on the one hand, while also pleading against the commission of atrocity on the other hand, should be convinced by now that the prolongation of this war, obviously, implies the continued commission of atrocities, the loss of more innocent lives, more destruction. Hundreds of people will be killed by this time tomorrow. Then hundreds more, and then thousands. Children will be killed, orphaned, wounded, disabled for life, not by mistake, but by design, because the killers have no regard whatsoever for Palestinian life."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/dec/08/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-gaza-palestine-idf-civilians-blinken?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with:block-65738a688f08782fbd9a5c8f