00:00 In the last hour, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he will not be sending a delegation to Washington as a result of this vote.
00:09 Well, standing by for us now in Jerusalem with a bit more on that is our senior reporter, Catherine Norris-Trent.
00:15 Catherine, good to talk to you. What more can you tell us today about the Israeli reaction?
00:22 Hello there, Nadia. Well, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, is said to be furious that the U.S. failed to veto this resolution calling for a ceasefire.
00:31 And he acted quickly, immediately, pretty much, putting out a statement saying that that delegation of senior Israeli officials,
00:38 which had been requested by Joe Biden, the U.S. President, to travel to Washington, D.C., to the White House for talks,
00:44 to listen to the U.S. proposals for an alternative to an all-out ground offensive in Rafa,
00:51 that delegation won't be leaving, says Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:55 He said that the U.S. decision not to veto this ceasefire, which doesn't call first for a liberation of Israeli hostages,
01:05 hurts Israel's war effort and contradicts the U.S. stance that has been there at the United Nations Security Council
01:13 and with regard to Israel since the beginning of this war.
01:18 Netanyahu said that this was a clear retreat. The U.S. has since hit back and denied that,
01:23 saying this does not represent a policy shift.
01:25 But in some of the words that Netanyahu's been putting out already since this U.N. vote,
01:32 you can see just how dismayed, angry he is.
01:36 He says, "It gives Hamas hope that international pressure will allow for a ceasefire without the release of Israel's abductees."
01:45 So it's just laying bare once again the rift between the Biden administration and the current Israeli government.
