China Furious Over U.S. Veto of UN Action on Israel-Hamas War

UN Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question at the United Nations on October 18, 2023 in New York. Bryan R. Smith / AFP

China’s normally soft-spoken ambassador to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, expressed “shock and disappointment” that the United States used its veto power on the Security Council to block a resolution that called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas.

Twelve of the council’s fifteen members voted in favor of the Brazilian-drafted resolution, the UK and Russia abstained and the U.S. was the lone dissenter.

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