Moments after she filed a controversial veto to a U.N. Security Council resolution that called for humanitarian pauses in the war between Israel and Hamas, Washington’s U.N. envoy walked out of the U.N. chambers side by side with her Israeli colleague on Wednesday.
“This council must speak out,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to the council. “But the actions we take must be informed by the facts on the ground and support direct diplomacy efforts that can save lives. The council needs to get this right.”
