UN votes on Gaza
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- Created: Thursday, 09 May 2024 17:59
- Written by Louis Brehony
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On 25 March 2024, after much deliberation, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2728, calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war on Gaza, effective for the short remainder of the month of Ramadan. Put forward by elected members of the UN body, including Algeria and Mozambique, the motion was bolstered by Chinese and Russian backing. Attempting to appear as the peacemaker while declaring its ongoing solidarity with the genocidal occupation, imperialist Britain played a pernicious role, voting in favour, while supporting the aims of the aggression. In a step unprecedented in recent times, the US abstained, allowing the censure of the Zionist state to pass. As a broad front of Palestinian resistance organisations declared, this UN resolution may reveal fissures in US-Israeli relations, but can only prove effective with real pressure to end the Zionist war.