US responsible for the bloodshed of children in Gaza: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Saturday said that the US is “responsible for the bloodshed” of children in Gaza after the country vetoed a UNSC resolution calling for a ceasefire in the territory. “The president has described the American position as aggressive and immoral, a blatant violation of all humanitarian values and principles, and holds the United States responsible for the bloodshed of Palestinian children, women, and elderly in Gaza” due to its support for Israel, said a statement from Abbas’s office. American envoy Robert Wood said the resolution, sponsored by UAE, was “divorced from reality” and “would have not moved the needle forward on the ground”. Abbas further said that “US policy makes it complicit in the crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem”. Meanwhile, Iran has issued a warning threatening an “uncontrollable explosion” of the situation in the Middle East after the United States blocked the UN Security Council resolution. Guterres had convened the emergency meeting after weeks of fighting left nearly 17,500 people dead in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children, according to the latest toll from the Hamas-run health ministry. With inputs from agencies