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US 'complicit' in Gaza crimes over obstruction of UN resolutions against Israel: Hamas

Iran Press TV

Thursday, 28 August 2025 8:43 AM

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says the United States' obstruction of UN resolutions "makes it complicit" in the Israeli regime's crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas said in a statement that it welcomed the statement by the United Nations Security Council members, excluding the US, which called for an "immediate, permanent and unconditional ceasefire" in Gaza to allow unfettered aid into the Palestinian territory to stop the famine, while affirming that Israel's use of starvation as a weapon of war is prohibited under international humanitarian law.

Fourteen of the 15 UN Security Council members -- four permanent ones, namely, Russia, China, the UK, and France, and the other 10 rotating -- called on the Israeli regime on Wednesday to end its genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has left hundreds of thousands of casualties since its launch in October 2023.

The US, among the permanent members of the UNSC, did not take part in the vote and obstructed the UN resolution.

The Israeli regime's brutal genocide against Gaza since October 2023 has killed nearly 62,900 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

In Gaza City alone, more than half a million people are already facing a famine.

Hamas called on the UNSC to uphold its responsibilities and take practical steps to deter the Tel Aviv regime, particularly its war-mongering criminal leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

It urged the body to help halt the brutal genocide that has been ongoing for nearly 23 months, and hold the occupation's war criminal leaders accountable for their crimes against humanity.

"We see this international position as a significant step forward, demonstrating broad consensus in condemning the crime of genocide and the war of starvation waged by the occupation against more than two million Palestinians in Gaza," Hamas said in its statement.

Hamas said the US obstruction is preventing the 15-member UNSC from reaching a consensus to issue a binding resolution.

"The continued obstruction of binding resolutions by the US makes it complicit in the crimes committed against the Palestinian people, and [the US] bears responsibility for the famine and massacres in Gaza," it added.

Those speaking at the UNSC meeting also warned the body members on Wednesday that the situation in Gaza is catastrophic, with the worst-case scenario of famine now officially declared and Israel using starvation as a method of war "in its starkest terms."

"Today the world looks on in horror as the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory continues to deteriorate to levels not seen in recent history," said Ramiz Alakbarov, United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.

Despite the UN confirmation of the severity of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Netanyahu has repeated his push for what he calls the "complete" defeat of Hamas in Gaza.