However worldwide divisions, together with over Washington’s personal use of its veto energy within the Council and its refusal to name for a everlasting cease-fire, appeared to doom the decision on Friday.

Eleven members voted in favor of the decision, however three nations, together with two everlasting members with veto energy, Russia and China, voted towards it. Algeria additionally voted towards the measure and Guyana abstained.

After the vote, the U.S. ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, defended the decision, saying it was introduced ahead “in good religion after consulting with all Council members and after a number of rounds of edits.”

She mentioned Russia and China vetoed the decision for 2 causes: That they had refused to sentence Hamas, they usually “merely didn’t need to vote for a decision that was penned by the USA as a result of it might relatively see us fail than to see this Council succeed.”

Ms. Thomas-Greenfield mentioned the U.S. draft would have put the Safety Council’s weight behind diplomatic efforts “to safe a right away and sustained cease-fire as a part of a deal that results in the discharge of all hostages that may permit far more humanitarian assist to get into Gaza.”

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, talking earlier than leaving Tel Aviv, the place he met with Mr. Netanyahu and different leaders on Friday, additionally expressed disappointment on the failure.

The USA was making an attempt to indicate the worldwide group a “sense of urgency about getting a cease-fire tied to the discharge of hostages,” he mentioned, “one thing that everybody, together with the international locations that vetoed the decision ought to have been capable of get behind.”

Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, had denounced the U.S.-backed measure earlier than the vote, calling it a “hypocritical initiative” and “a diluted formulation” concerning a cease-fire.

“To avoid wasting the lives of peaceable Palestinians, this isn’t sufficient,” he mentioned. The draft, he asserted, was written with U.S. political pursuits in thoughts, to “make sure the impunity of Israel” and to undermine the authority of the Council.

He urged Council members to vote towards the decision, saying, “We can’t permit the Safety Council to turn out to be an instrument in development of Washington’s damaging coverage within the Center East.”

President Emmanuel Macron of France mentioned that the nation would work with Arab nations, together with Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, to attempt to persuade China and Russia to assist a French Safety Council decision. Talking at a information convention in Brussels shortly after the U.S. decision failed, he mentioned the hassle was a constructive signal of Washington’s shifting priorities.

France’s international ministry mentioned on Thursday that it was engaged on a draft decision. It didn’t specify when it might be filed.

The United States had vetoed three earlier resolutions demanding a cease to combating in Gaza, arguing that the measures might disrupt hostage negotiations and staunchly defending Israel’s proper to defend itself after the Hamas-led assault of Oct. 7. In every of these earlier Safety Council votes, the USA was the one vote towards the resolutions. Russia and Britain abstained from the primary vote, in October, and Britain abstained from the votes in December and February.

However because the dying toll has mounted in Gaza, the place the well being authorities say greater than 30,000 individuals have been killed, and as starvation and illness worsen across the territory, President Biden and different U.S. officers have grown more and more important of Israel’s prime minister and his dealing with of the battle. In his State of the Union handle this month, Mr. Biden known as for the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to let extra assist into Gaza and do extra to guard civilians.

The urging of an “speedy” cease-fire was a shift from a draft Safety Council decision that the USA circulated final month, which had known as for a short lived cease-fire “as quickly as practicable.”

A delegation of mediators from Israel, Egypt, Qatar and the USA have been assembly in Doha, Qatar’s capital, on Friday to “advance the discharge of hostages” nonetheless being held in Gaza, in keeping with the workplace of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. A U.S. official confirmed that William Burns, the director of the Central Intelligence Company, would journey to Qatar on Friday for negotiations.

In December, the Safety Council adopted a decision that known as for “pressing and prolonged humanitarian pauses and corridors” to permit assist to succeed in civilians in Gaza. However that measure stopped wanting demanding a cease-fire. The USA and Russia abstained from that vote.

Aurelien Breeden and Michael Crowley contributed reporting.