On Thursday, 112 Palestinians lost their lives and 760 were injured while queuing for food in northern Gaza. An Israeli source acknowledged that soldiers had opened fire on the crowd, but that conditions were chaotic. On Friday night, the US blocked a statement to the UN Security Council, which would have blamed Israel for the incident. It was Algeria that put forward the statement. All the other fourteen members of the UN Security Council supported the wording of the declaration, Mansour told reporters, according to AFP and al-Jazeera. – The problem is that we don’t have all the facts here, says the US deputy ambassador to the UN, Robert Wood. He explains that the US is trying to verify the circumstances surrounding how people died. – The parties are working on the wording to see if we can reach a statement, says Wood. The UN Security Council held a separate meeting to discuss the incident in the Gaza Strip. “This outrageous massacre shows that as long as the Security Council is paralyzed and vetoed, it costs Palestinian lives,” says Mansour.
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