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Blinken Meets With Top Ministers From Arab Nations
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0:51Now PlayingU.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met Friday in Washington with the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
This came as the United States vetoed a United Nations resolution backed by almost all other Security Council members and many other nations demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, where Palestinian civilians are facing what the U.N. chief calls a “humanitarian nightmare.”
U.S. Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood criticized the council after the vote for its failure to condemn Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel in which the militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, or to acknowledge Israel's right to defend itself.
He declared that halting military action would allow Hamas to continue to rule Gaza and "only plant the seeds for the next war.”
In a vain effort to press the Biden administration to drop its opposition to a cease-fire, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and other leading Arab nations and Turkey were in Washington on Friday.
But their meeting with Blinken was scheduled to take place only after the U.N. vote.
Blinken's meeting included Secretary General Hissein Brahim Taha and an OIC delegation of Arab States from Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and the Palestinian Authority at the Department of State.
Israel’s more than two-month military campaign has killed more than 17,400 people in Gaza — 70% of them women and children — and wounded more than 46,000, according to the Palestinian territory’s Health Ministry, which says many others are trapped under rubble. The ministry does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths.
The council called the emergency meeting to hear from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who for the first time invoked Article 99 of the U.N. Charter, which enables a U.N. chief to raise threats he sees to international peace and security.
He warned of an “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and urged the council to demand a humanitarian cease-fire.
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