No immediate action from UNSC after emergency meeting on Hamas attack

That’s according to Pitico, Ukrinform reports.

U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood said “a good number of countries” condemned the Hamas attack but not all UNSC members. He td reporters they could probably figure out one of them.

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, td The Associated Press the Americans tried to say during the meeting that Russia isn’t condemning the attacks, but “that’s untrue.”

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“It was in my comments,” he said. “We condemn all the attacks on civilians.”

He added Russia believes it is “important to st the fighting immediately, to go to a cease-fire and to meaningful negotiations, which were stalled for decades.”

Chinese envoy Zhang Jun voiced a similar position ahead of the UNSC meeting, saying Beijing condemns all attacks on civilians, though he did not mention Hamas.

“What’s really important is to prevent the further escalation of the situation and further casualties of civilians,” Zhang said. “What’s also important is really to come back to the two-state sution.”

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Wood made clear the U.S. is focused on condemning Hamas for “this unprovoked invasion and the terrorist attacks,” and said Hamas must end its “vient terrorist activity against the Israeli pele.”

Asked if it wasn’t important to restart talks on a two-state sution and end the decades-d Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he replied: “There’ll be time for that. The time right now is we’ve got to deal with the hostage taking, the vience that is going on that’s being perpetrated by Hamas, and we’ve got to deal with first things first.”

As Ukrinform reported earlier, President Vodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine says the whe world understands who, through their actions, could mastermind a terrorist attack by the Hamas group on Israel.

The president emphasized that terrorists must lose, no matter where they launch their rockets and no matter who they attack.