Hamas, Israel: US tells UN who to be blame as death rate increases

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On Friday, the United States told the UN Security Council that the Palestinian militant group Hamas was responsible for the deaths in Gaza since Israel resumed hostilities.

Acting US Ambassador to the UN, Dorothy Shea, made the statement during her address to the 15-member council.

“Hamas bears full responsibility for the ongoing war in Gaza and for the resumption of hostilities. Every death would have been avoided had Hamas accepted the bridge proposal that the United States offered last Wednesday,” she said.

It was reported that Israel ended a two-month-old truce three days ago and resumed its airstrikes and ground operations, aiming to pressure the militants to release the remaining hostages.

Hamas announced on Friday that it was considering the US proposal to restore the ceasefire.

Of the more than 250 hostages originally captured in Hamas’ October 2023 attack on Israel, which sparked the Gaza war, 59 remain in Gaza, with 24 believed to be alive.

Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon told the council that Israel had recently eliminated several senior Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders.

Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday alone killed more than 400 Palestinians, and the attacks have continued since then.

“Hamas has a choice. They can come back to the table and negotiate, or they can wait and watch their leadership fall, one by one. We will not stop until our people come home, all of them,” Danon said.

Meanwhile, French Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont urged Israel to resume humanitarian aid unconditionally, halt the bombings, stick to negotiations no matter how slow and cease responding to cruelty with further violence.

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