. In Rafa, Friday prayer doesn't take place in the mosque. It was destroyed long ago. On a day the world ruminated on the politics of war, its reality gets ever darker. This is footage from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in North Gaza, and this is a child called Fadi. He suffers Hours from cystic fibrosis, a condition worsened by war.

Malnutrition is common now. We are receiving more than 50 cases a day.

Us Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, was in Israel on his latest round of shuttle diplomacy. This was an audience impromptu with relatives of hostages.

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Private pointed discussions came with Israel Israel's Prime Minister. Planned military action in Ra'afa was high on the agenda and amongst US concerns.

We share the goal of ensuring Israel's long term security. As we said, though, A major military ground operation in Ra'afa is not the way to do it.

Strains on a relationship sounded, too, in the thoughts of the Israeli Prime Minister.

We have no way to defeat Hamas without going into Ra'afa and eliminating the rest of the battalions there. I told Blinken that I hope we will do it with the support of the US, but if we have to, we will do it alone.

At the United Nations, in a place where the world speaks its mind, America talked immediate ceasefire at the Security Council.

We want to see an immediate and sustained ceasefire. Of course, we can't just want that to happen. We have to make that happen.

The American shift had the support of the UK and 10 other countries. But the draft resolution was blown away by a Russian and Chinese veto.

Ladies and gentlemen, if you do this, you will cover yourselves in disgrace. Consider once again how you will look before the populations of the Middle East and in front of your own populations.

Had this draft resolution passed, it would have been significant. A collective call for a cessation in hostilities. But whilst it didn't progress, it does reflect the shift in America's position, closer to a ceasefire and to the humanitarian cause, but further from Israel. It compounds growing fracture lines between the allies and reshapes the framework for current talks in Qatar on an actual ceasefire and actual release of hostages. The politics of a ceasefire didn't fly here. They may yet may yet land there. James Matthews, Sky News at the United Nations in New York.