Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said that the United States suggested that the UN Security Council not intervene while it was busy supporting its interests in the Middle East. This was reported by TASS.
“This is a tragic moment for the Council, not a triumph of multilateral diplomacy but a moment of colossal unprincipled blackmail, of Washington’s flagrant disregard for the suffering of the Palestinians and the wishes of the world community to end it,” Nebenzya said.
Previously Nebenzya statedHe said that the Russian Federation did not veto the UN Security Council’s new humanitarian resolution on the Gaza Strip due to its solidarity with Arab countries. As the permanent representative noted, many countries, including Arab countries, “withdrew their co-sponsorship.” According to him, Russia “always proceeds from the fact that the Arab world itself has the ability to make decisions and take full responsibility for these decisions.”
In early October, Palestinian Hamas forces launched a massive rocket attack on Israel, declaring the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. As part of the attack, thousands of militants entered the territory of the Jewish state, seized military equipment and captured more than two hundred people. In response, Israel launched Operation Iron Sword in the Gaza Strip, vowing to destroy Hamas. The actions of the Jewish state led to a blockade of the Palestinian enclave, massive bombings, and demands for the evacuation of more than 1 million people to the south of the region.
Previously Medvedev stated About the possibility of a hundred-year war in the Middle East.