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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 20, 2023 | SaltWireUNITED NATIONS - U.S. credibility rallying support for issues like Ukraine may have been compromised, some diplomats said, after Washington this week blocked United Nations action to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza from the war between Israel and Hamas.
The United States is"firmly committed to urgently addressing the dire humanitarian needs of civilians in Gaza, as both President Biden and Secretary Blinken emphasized during their trips to the region," Nate Evans, spokesperson for the U.S. mission to the United Nations in New York, said on Friday. Israel has since pounded Gaza from the air and imposed a complete siege on the enclave. The Palestinian health ministry says more than 4,000 Palestinians have been killed. The U.N. says more than a million have been made homeless.
"What better way to reinforce perceptions in the so-called Global South of American double standards than comparing Washington's condemnation of Russian destruction of Ukrainian civilian architecture with Washington's relative silence about Israel's destruction of Gazan civilian infrastructure?" he said.Senior diplomats from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East voiced concerns about double standards when contacted by Reuters after the U.S.
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