Russia\u2019s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia has blamed the United States for the ongoing atrocities committed by Israel against Palestinians, as Washington has opposed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an urgent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. \u201cThis ugly situation was brought about by the fact that, because of the United States position, the Security Council has been virtually paralyzed and has not yet been able to adopt a resolution demanding an urgent ceasefire,\u201d Nebenzia said in a statement at UNSC briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue, on Monday. He noted that the blocking of such UNSC resolutions shows that Washington and Tel Aviv \u201chave quite different plans: to exterminate the population of Gaza or \u2018oust\u2019 it from the Strip, and assimilate the rest of the Palestinian population into Israel in order to solve the Palestinian problem.\u201d Referring to the large number of civilian deaths, the Russian envoy stressed that \u201ca humanitarian disaster of biblical scale is unfolding\u201d in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip. He also strongly condemned Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza from a complete siege to a communications blackout that has cut off the strip from the rest of the world and prevented the passage of a humanitarian convoy. Noting that Israel decided to implement its plan to expand its ground raids in Gaza after the 193-member UN General Assembly approved a non-binding resolution that calls for an immediate humanitarian truce, the envoy said Israel is \u201cblatantly ignoring the views of the vast majority of UN members, including many Western nations, on the need to end the violence.\u201d The envoy also slammed Western countries that abstained at the vote on Russia-proposed draft resolutions that called for a ceasefire. \u201cColleagues, your double standards are more than obvious. The people of your own countries, where mass demonstrations in support of the Palestinians are taking place, are already demanding accountability for this double-dealing,\u201d he said, addressing Western delegations on the Council. He pointed out that Moscow is exerting \u201cintensive\u201d efforts, with the aim of \u201cresolving the crisis as soon as possible.\u201d Elsewhere in his remarks, Nebenzia referred to US strikes on two sites in eastern Syria on Thursday, warning that such \u201cillegitimate and unwarranted actions\u201d may \u201cprovoke an armed escalation on the regional scale.\u201d Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the US is benefiting from chaos in the region. Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians. Tel Aviv has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis. The regime has further ordered 1.1 million people in the north of Gaza to evacuate and move south of the coastal sliver. However, it has continued to rain down bombs on the south. The Israeli aggression has so far killed 8,306 Palestinians, including 3,457 children, and has injured more than 21,000 others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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