The United States said that it will “unquestionably” veto a Kuwaiti-backed Security Council resolution that would ask the United Nations to recommend actions to be taken to provide “international protection” for the civilian population of Gaza, The Times of Israel reported Thursday.

The Kuwaiti resolution is expected to come up for a vote on Friday.

A draft of the resolution calls on Israel’s military to stop “the use of any excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate force.” It also contains language that “deplores the firing of rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israeli civilian areas.”

However, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley blasted the resolution for failing to mention Hamas, the terrorist group that exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip.

“It is a grossly one-sided approach that is morally bankrupt and would only serve to undermine ongoing efforts toward peace between the Israelis and Palestinians,” Haley said in a statement released Thursday evening. “There is not one single mention of Hamas in the resolution, when Hamas is chiefly responsible for the recent violence in Gaza.”

According to Kuwait’s Ambassador to the U.N. Mansour al-Otaibi, the vote on the resolution was delayed from Thursday in order to incorporate changes that had been suggested by the United States. The Security Council has held numerous emergency sessions requested by Kuwait since the Hamas-led riots, beginning at the end of March.

Kuwait blocked a U.S.-sponsored statement condemning Hamas for the firing of rockets and mortars into Israel earlier this week. In response, Haley said that condemning Hamas for the violence should have been a “no-brainer,” and noted that “some Council members did not think Hamas launching rockets qualified as terrorism.”

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