'Innocent Palestinians must be protected', UN ambassador says after vetoing resolution condemning violence
A week after vetoing the Security Council's resolution on the Israel and Palestine war, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield posted a statement on Saturday saying the lives of "innocent Palestinians must be protected."
"We must not become numb to the pain and the suffering of people like Wael al-Dahdouh – a Palestinian journalist whose wife, son, daughter, and grandson were killed in Gaza this week," she wrote on X.
The lives of UN personnel and humanitarian workers and journalists must be protected.
We mourn the loss of every single innocent life in this crisis. Every single one."
This comes a week after the US vetoed a resolution condemning all violence against civilians in Israel and Palestine, where she said that the US “is disappointed this resolution made no mention of Israel’s right of self-defence.”
We must not become numb to the pain and the suffering of people like Wael al-Dahdouh – a Palestinian journalist whose wife, son, daughter, and grandson were killed in Gaza this week.
— Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield (@USAmbUN) October 28, 2023
The lives of innocent Palestinians must be protected.
The lives of UN personnel and…