UN Security Council Passes Diluted Resolution on Gaza War

Washington strong-armed the UN Security Council to remove all meaningful language from a resolution about the war in Gaza. The resolution initially called for a ceasefire and an expedited aid delivery system in Gaza.

On Friday, the UN Security Council passed a 16-point resolution that includes “calls for urgent steps to immediately allow safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access and to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.”

Trita Parsi, executive vice president at the Responsible Statecraft, slammed the White House for crafting a “meaningless” resolution. Throughout the negotiations “the resolution became increasingly meaningless. Biden managed to delete the call for suspension of hostilities as well as the establishment of a robust UN inspection mechanism in Gaza,” in a post on X. “Biden’s changes will help ensure that Israel’s slaughter in Gaza continues while minimizing the UN’s insight into what increasingly appears to be a genocide.”