Palestinians: US veto backs Israel massacre

The Hamas-led Palestinian government said on Saturday that the United States’ veto of a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s attack that killed 19 Palestinians showed the US backed Israel’s action.

Ghazi Hamad, the Palestinian cabinet spokesman, said the veto was “a signal that the US had given legitimacy to the massacres and a green light to (Israel) to ... carry out more massacres”. (Reuters)