{"id":6882,"date":"2021-05-18T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6882"},"modified":"2021-05-18T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:59:01","slug":"un-condemns-violence-in-gaza-but-fails-to-adopt-unified-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/un-condemns-violence-in-gaza-but-fails-to-adopt-unified-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"UN condemns violence in Gaza but fails to adopt unified statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Israel committing war crimes in Gaza, Palestinian foreign minister tells UN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members condemned the violence in the Middle East but failed to agree on a unified position.<\/p>\n<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council on Sunday that hostilities in Israel and Gaza were \u201cutterly appalling\u201d and called for an immediate end to the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the 15-member council\u2019s first public meeting on the conflict, Guterres said the United Nations is \u201cactively engaging all sides toward an immediate cease-fire\u201d and called on them \u201cto allow mediation efforts to intensify and succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFighting must stop. It must stop immediately,\u201d he said. \u201cRockets and mortars on one side and aerial and artillery bombardments on the other must stop. I appeal to all parties to heed this call.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The current violence in Gaza &amp; Israel only perpetuates the cycles of death, destruction &amp; despair, and pushes farther to the horizon any hopes of coexistence &amp; peace.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting must stop immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UN<\/a> is actively engaging all sides towards an immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (@antonioguterres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antonioguterres\/status\/1393977606085693447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The UN chief stressed that the only way forward is to return to negotiations towards a two-state solution, but the fighting is making this goal even more challenging. \u201cThis senseless cycle of bloodshed, terror and destruction must stop immediately,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #333333;\">UN criticized for failure to adopt a unified response<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Many countries have criticized the UN&#8217;s failure to adopt a united stance against violence amidst Israel\u2019s aggression, including airstrikes, against Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure to adopt even a press statement on an issue that has been on the Council\u2019s agenda since almost its inception is simply unacceptable,\u201d said Feridun Sinirlioglu, Turkey\u2019s ambassador to the UN, in a written statement to the UN Security Council (UNSC).<\/p>\n<p>Norway, Tunisia and China, the countries which requested an open debate of the Security Council on the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, regretted that United States blocked the joint UN statement calling for an immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegrettably, simply because of the obstruction of one country, the Security Council hasn\u2019t been able to speak with one voice,\u201d Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during the virtual meeting. \u201cWe call upon the United States to shoulder its due responsibilities of taking a just position.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Israel committing war crimes in Gaza: Palestinian FM<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has accused Israel of committing \u201cwar crimes\u201d in its nearly weeklong offensive on Gaza as he urged international pressure at a United Nations Security Council session.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome may not want to use these words \u2013 war crimes and crimes against humanity \u2013 but they know they are true,\u201d al-Maliki said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAct now to end the aggression. Act now so freedom can prevail \u2013 not apartheid,\u201d he told the Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>At least 212 Palestinians, including 61 children, have been killed in Gaza since the latest violence began more than a week ago. Around 1,500 Palestinians were also wounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel committing war crimes in Gaza, Palestinian foreign minister tells UN United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[75,92,26,356,27,17,128],"class_list":["post-6882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-conflict","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-un","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-United-Nations-Security-Council-meets-about-the-situation-in-Syria-at-United-Nations-Headquarters-in-the-Manhattan-borough-of-New-York-City-New-York-U.S.-February-28-2020.-REUTERSCarlo-Allegri.jpeg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1N0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6882\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}