US obstruction of UN resolutions "makes it complicit" in Gaza crimes: Hamas

Hamas on Wednesday said it welcomed the statement from 14 of the 15 United Nations Security Council members - four permanent ones and 10 that rotate - calling on Israel to allow unfettered aid into Gaza to stop the famine, and to end its war on the enclave. 

The US did not take part. 

"We see this international position as a significant step forward, demonstrating broad consensus in condemning the crime of genocide and the war of starvation waged by the occupation against more than two million Palestinians in Gaza," Hamas said in a statement.

But it also added that "the continued obstruction of binding resolutions by the US makes it complicit in the crimes committed against the Palestinian people, and [it] bears responsibility for the famine and massacres in Gaza".