Hamas strongly condemns the US veto that blocked a proposed UN Security Council demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, Reuters reports, citing a senior Hamas official who said late on Friday in an official statement that the group considers Washington’s move “unethical and inhumane.”

“The US obstruction of the issuance of a ceasefire resolution is a direct participation with the occupation in killing our people and committing more massacres and ethnic cleansing,” Ezzat El-Reshiq, a member of the group’s political bureau, said.

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