Ceasefire failure

The international community continues to fail the Palestinians.

With apartheid Israel continuing to drop munitions provided by the US and Europe. There was hope that a UN Security Council resolution for a ceasefire would pass, providing some respite to a people who have already seen over 20,000 of their members struck down, in some cases still entombed under the rubble. Instead, in another cowardly act, the UK abstained whilst the United States, clearly disregarding its isolated position, vetoed the resolution that would have seen a cessation of the violence that has plagued the Palestinians for over two months. The situation has now moved from crisis to catastrophe to a stain on our collective humanitarian consciousness. Mauritania and Egypt have invoked UN resolution 377, which will hopefully trigger a special UN General assembly meeting to discuss the issue, but as regional actors threatened to widen the conflict, how is it that with guys decimated, we still have a ceasefire failure?