After more than two weeks of fighting between Israel and Hamas, the UN Security Council still has not adipted a resolution on the regulation of the crisis, which has been met with deep regret by world governments, including African ones.
South Africa is "appalled" by the failure of the UN Security Council to agree on a resolution to end the killing and suffering in the Israel-Palestinian war, Foreign Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor said.
"South Africa is appalled at the Security Council's failure to agree on a unified resolution that signals a full commitment to ending killing and suffering. There can be no search for compromise resolutions when this Council is faced with a crisis of such proportions," Pandor said during the UN Security Council meeting.
The minister emphasized that the conflict in the Middle East highlighted the shortcomings of the United Nations and more so the Security Council, which is responsible for upholding international peace and security.
Egypt regrets the UN Security Council failure to adopt a resolution on the Middle East war and also for its inability to urge the ceasefire, Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry said.
"We followed with regret the inability of this ghost Council twice to adopt a resolution or even to call for a ceasefire to end this war ," Shoukry said during a UN Security Council.
Moreover, Shoukry stressed, Egypt is surprised by new attempts to adopt a resolution that does not include a call for a ceasefire.
