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Quite a few members of the UN Safety Council denounced Hamas on Sunday over its large assault on Israel however the US regretted the dearth of unanimity.

At an emergency session, the US and Israel urged robust condemnation of the Palestinian Islamists, who rule the blockaded Gaza Strip and launched a shock assault on Saturday in preventing that has claimed greater than 1,000 lives.

“There are a superb variety of international locations that condemned the Hamas assaults. They’re clearly not all,” senior US diplomat Robert Wooden instructed reporters after the closed-door session.

“You might most likely determine one in all them with out me saying something,” Stated Robert Wooden, in a transparent allusion to Russia, whose relations with the West have deteriorated sharply since its invasion of Ukraine.

Diplomats stated the Safety Council didn’t think about any joint assertion, not to mention a binding decision, with members led by Russia hoping for a broader focus than condemning Hamas.

“My message was to cease the preventing instantly and to go to a ceasefire and to significant negotiations, which was instructed for many years” by the Safety Council, stated Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations.

“That is partly the results of unresolved points,” he stated.

China, usually Russia’s ally on the Safety Council, stated it might help a joint assertion.

“It is irregular that the Safety Council does not say something,” Ambassador Zhang Jun stated, who earlier promised Chinese language help for a condemnation of “all assaults in opposition to civilians.”

Coming into the session, Israel’s ambassador, Gilad Erdan, confirmed graphic photos of Israeli civilians being taken captive by Hamas.

“These are battle crimes — blatant, documented battle crimes,” Gilad Erdan stated.

“This unimaginable — unimaginable — atrocity should be condemned,” he stated of the Safety Council.

“Israel should be given steadfast help to defend ourselves — to defend the free world.”

The Palestinian ambassador — who represents the West Financial institution-centered Palestinian Authority and never rival Hamas — known as on the Safety Council to concentrate on ending Israeli occupation.

“Regrettably, historical past for some media and politicians begins when Israelis are killed,” stated the envoy, Riyad Mansour.

“This isn’t a time to let Israel double-down on its horrible decisions. This can be a time to inform Israel it wants to vary course, that there’s a path to peace the place neither Palestinians nor Israelis are killed.”

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