The United States on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza. Washington wielding its veto dashes a growing clamour for an immediate ceasefire that had been led by UN Chief Antonio Guterres and Arab nations. Guterres had convened an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council after weeks of a relentless Israeli military campaign that killed more than 17,487 people in Gaza, including over 7,000 children. “The United Arab Emirates is deeply disappointed,” said the representative of the UAE who had sponsored the res…