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Transcript/ScriptWASHINGTON WEEK AHEAD))
HEADLINE: US Explains Veto of UN Resolution for Gaza Cease-Fire
TEASER: US defends decision to send weapons to Israel but calls for protecting civilians
PUBLISHED AT: 12/10/23
BYLINE: Veronica Balderas Iglesias
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((TV INTRO)) [[Amid growing criticism over its continued support of Israel’s military operation in Gaza, the United States defended its stance Sunday but also reiterated the importance of protecting Palestinian civilians. Verónica Balderas Iglesias reports.]]
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“More forcefully, with intensity” that’s how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Sunday the advances of his troops in Gaza.
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((Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister)) -((Hebrew))
“In order to achieve all our goals - the elimination of Hamas, the return of all our abductees, and the promise that Gaza will never again be a threat to Israel.”
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Netanyahu also thanked the United States for vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution last week that would have called for an immediate cease-fire. U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken explained the decision when interviewed Sunday on ABC’s This Week show.
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((Antony Blinken, Secretary of State))
“With Hamas, still alive, still intact, and again, with the stated intent of repeating October 7, again and again and again, that would simply perpetuate the problem.”
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As Blinken stressed the importance of providing Israel the support and weapons it needs to defend itself ...
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he made it clear it is not without conditions.
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“Those rules apply to Israel as they do to any other country, including the way they’re used and the need, the imperative of respecting international humanitarian law.”
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But as the civilian death toll continues to rise in Gaza, the United States' stance has been strongly criticized at the Doha Forum which is held every year to discuss world challenges.
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[[RADIO INTRO: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh]]
((Mohammad Shtayyeh, Palestinian Prime Minister)) - ((SOT #5 English)) "It's not up to Israel only. It is those who have given the Israelis the greenest of the green light to continue killing the Palestinians.”
[[RADIO INTRO: Ayman Safadi is Jordan’s Foreign Minister]]
((Ayman Safadi, Jordanian Foreign Minister)) -((SOT #3 English))
"In the United States, we had a very blunt conversation with [U.S.] Secretary Blinken. All of us, the Arab and Muslim delegation, were very clear, our priorities are set — stop the aggression, allow sufficient humanitarian supplies into all parts of Gaza, ensure protection of civilians."
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, also a forum participant, said he’ll continue appealing for a humanitarian cease-fire to be declared,
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and from Geneva, the chief of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned about the impact the war is having on the health environment in the Gaza Strip.
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((Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General)) -((SOT #1 English))
“As more and more people move to a smaller and smaller area, overcrowding combined with a lack of adequate food, water, shelter and sanitation are creating the ideal conditions for disease to spread.”
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He noted his organization has deployed teams to support health workers on the ground, who are physically and mentally exhausted.
((Veronica Balderas Iglesias, VOA News Washington.))
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in Washington D.C.
Embargo DateDecember 10, 2023 14:47 EST
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Veronica Balderas Iglesias, VOA News
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