United States vetoes UN Security Council resolution focussed on Gaza aid

A draft UN Security Council resolution focussed on humanitarian aid for Gaza was vetoed by the United States on Wednesday.

The text put forward by Brazil, which currently chairs the UN Security Council, included a demand that Israel reverse its call for the evacuation of civilians from the northern Gaza Strip.

Twelve of the 15 members of the council had given their support to the resolution.

The text of the document followed the line taken by the United Nations, which had described the evacuation of over 1 million people from the north of the densely populated coastal area as "impossible."

The war which broke out after Hamas' brutal surprise attack on October 7 has claimed several thousand lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of people in the Gaza Strip.