The UN Security Council is expected to meet on Friday to discuss the Israeli onslaught in Gaza after UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres invoked Article 99 of the UN Charter for the first time during his tenure, which started in 2017.
Article 99 allows the UN chief to bring a matter to the attention of the Security Council that he believes threatens “international peace and security.” While invoking the rule, Guterres repeated his call for a “humanitarian ceasefire.”
The Biden administration has rejected the idea of a ceasefire and blocked a UN Security Council resolution calling for one back in October. The US, which holds veto power as a permanent member of the 15-nation council, eventually allowed a resolution to pass that called for “humanitarian pauses.”
Guterres and other UN officials have said Israel’s renewed onslaught has made relief efforts impossible. More aid trucks had been allowed into Gaza during the week-long truce that enabled hostage releases, but the current Israeli operations have halted most aid deliveries.
Guterres said the UN “is simply unable to reach those in need in Gaza” and noted that at least 130 UN employees have been killed by the Israeli bombardment. UN officials have also said no place is safe in Gaza despite Israel’s claim of establishing safe zones, and Palestinians on the ground say there’s no safe place to evacuate.
In response to Guterres’ actions, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen accused the UN chief of supporting Hamas. “Guterres’ tenure is a danger to world peace,” Cohen wrote on X. “His request to activate Article 99 and the call for a ceasefire in Gaza constitutes support of the Hamas terrorist organization.”
This is entirely absurd and unacceptable…We have UN people getting killed and Israel just goes about with no responsibility? The US is entirely complicit.
But we can see that almost daily the pressure is building, coming from every direction. And though granted they have no moral faculty, no empathy for suffering, no guilt or shame, they are feeling increasingly uncomfortable.
I agree, but it is still hard to believe “they are feeling increasingly uncomfortable.” Why would they feel uncomfortable? They truly believe Israel is so nice. They just want all the Palestinian children comfortable when they REST IN PEACE.
Yes, especially when you look at that bland, insoouciant face of Jake Sullivan. Still, Netanyahu has pretty thoroughly unmanned them such that even their wives and children despise them. And that’s gotta hurt.
The UN was created to be complicit, why else would they give the veto to the most powerful who need it least…..??????
Unbeluevable! Israel feels so entitled to soecial privileges that blinds them to absurdities they produce for our consumption daily., Now it is UN Chief that is subjected to abuse for doing his job!
So Israel and the USA are allowed to destroy the world. What a surprise.
It is paramount that the UN Security Council addresses the topic of genocide on the part of the Netanyahu government.
And if the Israeli government does not abide, it should be expelled from civilization and from the United Nations.
Yes, I know. The US government would block such a resolution.
This would only demonstrate to the world where the US government stands of basic human rights.
More of this means destruction of Israel…!
America is a FAILED Government right now, because there are NO heroes in D.C., all are War Criminals. They are lining their pockets, while watching a slaughter going on by the Terrorist State Israel, that they are arming and sponsoring. Where in the world can Americans go visit, without being ashamed of our part in a Genocide. Cohen, hopefully, will be arrested, wanted for his War Crimes. This persecution of Palestinians did not begin after Oct 7, it has been going on for generations and what happened on Oct 7 was to remind people that the Palestinians want the Occupation to END. Americans/Israelis, are hypocrites, they want Freedoms, but they do NOT want the same for Palestinians.
“Discuss”…..blahblahblahblah….
Complicity is too weak a term. The two war criminals in DC and Tel Aviv are joined at the hip. You made your bed Biden, now sleep in it. With any luck, you will be remembered for how many Ukrainians and Palestinians you helped get injured and killed.
And you can blame Biden for all the killed Russians too!
For certain participants in this forum, that’s why they’re Biden 2024 all the way.
If the Secretary General were to stand up at the session on Friday that he requested and call out the Gaza slaughter as GENOCIDE, would it change anything…??? Or would it just be part of the powerless ranting which was baked into the UN, compounded with VETO that nuclear bomb states possess per se by nuclear bomb dominance. Lucky thing the Nazis never got the bomb. I wonder if this wait and see moment in the history of the UN will be broadcast live