Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted Saturday to the United States vetoing the United Nations Security Council’s call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Netanyahu called it the correct decision and implored other U.N. member states to follow the U.S.’s example in a video posted to X, formerly known as Twitter. The prime minister offered his reply in Hebrew, which has since been translated by the Times of Israel.
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“Other countries too need to understand that it is impossible to support the elimination of Hamas on one hand, and on the other hand call for the halting of the war, which would prevent the elimination of Hamas,” Netanyahu said. “Israel will continue our justified war aimed at eliminating Hamas and at achieving the rest of the war goals that we have set.”
Robert A. Wood, the alternate U.S. representative for Special Political Affairs within the Mission to the U.N., was the ambassador present at the Security Council vote to call for a veto. The U.K. opted not to vote, leaving 13 member states to vote for a ceasefire call. Wood offered a statement to the Security Council during the meeting Friday, saying the proposed resolution was “divorced from reality.”
“We still cannot comprehend why the resolution’s authors declined to include language condemning Hamas’ horrific terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7,” Wood said at the time.
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The most recent death toll of Palestinians in Gaza is over 17,700, according to the Associated Press. It has been over two months since Hamas invaded Israel and launched thousands of rockets which resulted in the deaths of some 1,200 civilians.
Neither chamber of Congress has been able to pass a bill to aid Israel since the House elected Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as speaker. The House has until Thursday when its end-of-year recess begins. In the meantime, the State Department bypassed congressional approval and used its emergency powers to sell some 13,000 rounds of tank ammunition to Israel.
