Robert Wood, US Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, announced before the voting on “immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip” in the United Nations Security Council that the US does not support calls for such a decision. Saying that Hamas has no desire to establish permanent peace, Wood stated that the ceasefire would cause another war.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, in his statement to journalists in the US capital, Washington, DC, said that if the security council does not accept the decision, Israel will be given a license to continue its massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.