US-drafted resolution criticising Hamas for the Gaza violence, failed to gain any support from fellow Council members on Friday.
In the vote for the American resolution, in which the United States was the sole yes vote, three members voted against it and 11 abstained
Before that US vetoed a Kuwaiti-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Israel's use of force against Palestinian civilians
Ten countries, including Russia and France, voted in favour of the Kuwait-sponsored resolution on Friday.
Four others - Britain Poland, the Netherlands and Ethiopia - abstained, while the US, a major ally of Israel, was the only country to vote against it.
Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations said the votes showed that the Security Council majority “was willing to blame Israel, but unwilling to blame Hamas, for violence in Gaza.”
But she did not mentioned that the votes offered some insight into the challenges the United States is facing diplomatically over what critics call its unbridled support of Israel’s side in the protracted conflict with the Palestinians.
About 120 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the “Great March of Return” began in Gaza Strip on March 30. Fourteen children are among the fallen Palestinians.
About 13,300 Palestinians also sustained injuries, of whom 300 are in a critical condition.
The occupied territories have witnessed new tensions ever since US President Donald Trump on December 6, 2017 announced Washington's recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s “capital” and said the US would move its embassy to the city.
