US uses veto to sink UN Gaza ceasefire resolution

The US vetoes a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. We hear from a doctor treating the injured in Gaza who describes trauma, exhaustion and hunger among the civilian population.

Also, as attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank rise, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen meets an Israeli settler leader; and is a run of poor form by one of Ireland’s most successful Gaelic football teams down to a decades-old curse by a priest?

Joining Paul Henley to discuss all this and more are Kathy Gannon, former Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Associated Press and Steve Erlanger, chief diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times in Europe.

(Photo: Robert A Wood (C), Alternate Representative of the US for Special Political Affairs in the UN, 8 December , 2023. Credit: David Dee Delgado/Reuters)