Strike on the hospital in the Gaza Strip could probably have been avoided if the UN Security Council had adopted the draft resolution of the Russian delegation. This opinion was expressed on Thursday, October 19, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
The department noted that the UN Security Council, the main international body for maintaining global peace and security, again, due to the position of the United States, “could not send a much-needed and urgent message to stop the bloodshed and take urgent humanitarian action.» We are talking about the US veto on the Brazilian draft resolution on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
In the context of a growing confrontation that risks going beyond the borders of the Middle East region and acquiring a confessional dimension, the consequences of such a step are monstrous, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned.
The Russian ministry also stated that such actions demonstrate Washington’s true intentions in the Middle East, and “it was the failed US policy in the Palestinian-Israeli direction that provoked the current catastrophic escalation.”
Earlier, sources said that The United States warned Iran about the possible use of force in a new Middle East conflict if necessary.
At the same time, Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin named Washington as the culprit and beneficiary of the conflict in the Middle East, emphasizing that “to whom is war, and to whom is the mother «.