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TURKIYE'S PRESIDENT ERDOGAN SLAMS US VETO OF SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION CALLING FOR CEASEFIRE IN GAZA, CALLS FOR REFORM OF SECURITY COUNCIL
Turkiye's President, Racep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking on Saturday, called for the reform of the United Nations Security Council, and said the United States was standing in the way of a ceasefire in Gaza.
Erdogan reiterated his call to reform the UN Security Council where yesterday the United States used it's permanent seat on the Council to veto a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip where nearly two months of incessant bombing has killed approximately 17'500 Palestinian civilians and injured another 46'000 since October 7th.
"Due to a veto by the US, no decision was reached. It is essential for the UN Security Council to be reformed,” the Turkish President said.
"We have lost our hope and expectation from the UN Security Council."
"Since Oct. 7, the UN Security Council, whose mission is to establish global peace, has turned into a protector of Israel," Erdogan said.
Israeli Occupation Forces resumed their heavy bombing and shelling of residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip on December 1st after a breakdown in negotiations failed to renew a short truce between the Israeli occupation and Hamas, which had taken effect beginning November 24th.
Erdogan further stressed that the Israeli occupation is committing atrocities and massacres inside Gaza that shame all of humanity with the full backing and support of the United States, and said that the "butchers of Gaza" must be held accountable "sooner or later".
Erdogan said that a fair world is possible, but not while the United States is siding with Israel, and added that the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights is being blatantly violated in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories.