Chantal Da Silva is a breaking news editor for NBC News Digital based in London.
TEL AVIV — As tensions rise between the two countries, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, on Tuesday, a day after the United States abstained in a United Nations Security Council vote calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. After the historic abstention by one of its closest allies, Israel abruptly canceled the visit of a high-level delegation to Washington this week. But Gallant, who arrived in the U.S.
abstention at the Security Council, which elicited a furious response from Netanyahu’s office in a series of posts on X. Calling it a “clear departure from the consistent U.S. position in the Security Council since the beginning of the war,” Netanyahu’s office said that it would give Hamas “hope that international pressure will force Israel to accept a cease-fire without the release of our hostages, thus harming both the war effort and the effort to release the hostages.
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