HAMAS has condemned the US veto in the UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza as ‘blatant complicity and active involvement in the genocide being perpetrated by the Zionist occupation against the Palestinian people’. Hamas thanked the ten states that submitted the resolution and urged international bodies to increase pressure to stop Israel’s campaign. On Thursday evening, Washington blocked a draft resolution that had the support of 14 out of 15 Council members, including all ten elected members. Algeria’s representative to the Security Council, Amar Benjamaa, denounced the Council’s paralysis. ‘The Security Council has once again failed to protect the Palestinians.