United Nations, December 9 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour called it a “sad day” Friday after the U.S. vetoed the Security Council's draft resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. 

Mansour said he believes one day “those who cannot see reality” will eventually react to “the massive pressure of humanity, from one corner of the globe to the other corner of the globe, with billions of people demanding ceasefire.”

“We are upset like our people, who are furious and upset with the UN system — with the United Nations, with the Security Council, with the General Assembly — and they are correctly upset and angry and frustrated because they see this massive Israeli war machine killing them in the thousands, and yet the Security Council has been paralyzed,” Mansour said. 

The draft resolution considered by the Security Council on Friday was co-sponsored by 97 countries.   The United States cast the only NO vote on Friday, thus blocking the UN resolution.