The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, after the United States abstained from the vote — prompting Israel to cancel the visit of a high-level delegation to Washington. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned prior to the vote that the delegation's visit would be pulled, if Washington did not veto the motion. The U.S. abstention signals a widening divide between the White House and Israel's current government, the most right-wing in its history, nearly six months into its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israel's offensive into the Gaza enclave, which comes in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, ha