News - World: During a United Nations Security Council meeting addressing the situation in the Gaza Strip, Russian representative Vasily Nebenzia questioned the sincerity of the West's concern for the children of Gaza.

Nebenzia pointedly accused the United States of bearing responsibility for the deaths of 30,000 Gaza residents, attributing these casualties to the US obstruction of Security Council resolutions aimed at establishing a ceasefire in the region. He condemned the American draft resolution as essentially granting Israel a license to commit genocide.

Responding to claims made by the US representative, Nebenzia rejected comparisons between Ukraine and Gaza, emphasizing that the United States, with its history of committing genocide in many countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, lacks the moral authority to lecture the world on humanitarian principles.

The US has used its veto power at the UNSC to block the Algeria-drafted resolution, which rejected the “forced displacement of the Palestinian civilian population” and urged “all parties to comply with international law.”

Representatives of 13 countries at the 15-member Security Council voted in favor. Britain abstained.

Washington vetoed similar draft resolutions in October and December.

Condemnations have poured in from across the world. Countries such as China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and even Washington’s close allies, including France and Slovenia, have denounced the veto.

Washington has supplied the Israeli regime with more than 10,000 tons of military equipment over the past months of hostilities in Gaza.

Israel has killed more than 29,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 69,000 others in Gaza since early October. The regime ignited the brutal war machine on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity.