“It is disgraceful that the U.S. was able to stall and use the threat of its veto power to force the U.N. Security Council to weaken a much-needed call for an immediate end to attacks by all parties,” Amnesty International secretary-general Agnès Callamard said in a statement. https://www.commondreams.org/news/united-nation-resolution-gaza
Trita Parsi, co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, said on social media Friday that “Biden’s changes will help ensure that Israel’s slaughter in Gaza continues while minimizing the U.N.’s insight into what increasingly appears to be a genocide.” “Biden is effectively running war crimes management for Israel,” he added. https://truthout.org/articles/us-abstains-from-un-gaza-resolution-after-lobbying-to-weaken-it/