WorthyNews: Netanyahu Calls Off Delegation to U.S. After UNSC Vote

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by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called off the scheduled visit to Washington by a delegation headed by his senior aides Ron Dermer and Tzachi Hanegbi following the US’s decision not to use its veto against a UN Security Council resolution, supported by Russia and China, which demanded a ceasefire without making it contingent with the release of hostages held by Hamas.

“The US today did not veto the new draft that calls for a ceasefire without conditioning it on the release of the hostages,” a statement released by Israel’s Prime Minister office stated.

The statement describes the decision as “a clear withdrawal from the USA’s consistent position in the security Council since the beginning of the war.”

Netanyahu’s office stated that the resolution will “impede the war effort” because it gives hope that “international pressure will allow them [Hamas] to receive a ceasefire without releasing our hostages.”

Following the U.N. resolution, Netanyahu’s office announced that due to the U.S. change of its position, it would not dispatch an Israeli delegation to the United States.

The Israeli delegation was set to finalize plans for a military operation in Rafah, recognized as Hamas’s final stronghold, where four battalions of its terrorists are operating behind a million civilian human shields.

Israel reported that on October 7, Hamas abducted 253 Israelis and foreigners. Since then 112 individuals had been released. This release tally includes an early agreement freeing 78 Israeli women and children, five Israelis released in October, three Russian-Israelis, and 24 hostages from Thailand and the Philippines.

Israel estimates that approximately 130 hostages remain in captivity by Hamas, among them five Americans.

Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, openly seeks to destroy Israel in its entirety and replace it with a Palestinian-Islamic state. The 1988 Hamas charter begins with the declaration, “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it,” citing Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.

While the world believes Israel and Hamas can coexist, Article 13 of its charter states “there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad.”

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