The Trump administration on MAy 14 blocked a UN Security Council statement that was intended to call for an investigation of the events on the Israel-Gaza border.
The statement, circulated by Kuwait, was supposed to include an expression of rage and sorrow on behalf of the Security Council over the deaths of more than 50 Palestinians, who were shot dead by the IDF during protests near the border fence. However, the U.S. blocked it from being adopted and published.
The Kuwaiti statement also included a call for the creation of an “independent and transparent investigation” into Israel’s actions on the border.
It wasn’t the first time that the U.S. has blocked an action at the Security Council related to Israel’s actions in Gaza, but was notable in light of the high death toll yesterday in Gaza – the highest since the end of the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.
Source: Haaretz
