As emergency response to the suffering civilian population in the Gaza Strip has begun, the whole world, in the words of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is “watching us today” and the “summit of peace” on Saturday. At the invitation of Egypt, several heads of state and government from the Middle East region and representatives of the UN and Western countries are participating in the summit. Israel is not there and according to its own statements was not invited. Egypt plays an important mediating role in the war between Hamas and Israel.
In his opening speech, host Sisi lamented the “collective silence” of the world community as 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip were “besieged, collectively punished and forcibly displaced.” “We should never believe that Palestinians want to leave their country – even if they are being bombed,” Sisi continued.
Jordan: “There is no military solution”
“The catastrophe is pushing an entire region into the abyss,” said Jordan’s King Abdullah II. “The more brutal the crisis becomes, the less the world seems to worry about it.” Elsewhere, denying access to food to an entire population would be condemned. , electricity and essential goods would be denied – but “not in Gaza”. The war must be ended immediately and the protection of civilians must be guaranteed. “Israel must recognize that there is no military solution to its security problems.”
Palestinian President: “We will never leave”
According to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian people will see the war in the Middle East through to the end. “We will never leave again. We will never leave our country. We will stand on our land until the end,” Abbas said. The “defenseless Palestinian people” must now endure a fierce war. “The maelstrom of violence is constantly being renewed because there is a lack of rights for Palestinians and they are being neglected,” declared the leading politician of the Fatah movement, who renounced terror as part of the Oslo peace process – in complete opposition to Hamas .
UN Secretary General António Guterres called for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. He identified three immediate goals: unhindered humanitarian assistance to civilians in the Gaza Strip, and the immediate and unconditional release of all Israel kidnapped hostages and made efforts to contain the violence to prevent the conflict from escalating.
Israeli ambassador: “Hamas alone is responsible for war”
Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor announced that he would continue to take tough action against Hamas. “We will completely destroy Hamas’ infrastructure. We will eliminate the leadership of Hamas,” Prosor said in Braunschweig on Saturday. A long war awaits us, for which Hamas alone is responsible, he said at the Germany Day of the Young Union.
Prosor described October 7 as the “darkest day in the history of the State of Israel” and a “turning point.” On October 7, the Islamist Hamas, together with hundreds of terrorists, invaded Israeli border towns and committed a massacre that left 1,400 dead. Since then, Israel has been bombing Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled south. The population must be liberated from Hamas, Prosor said. “In several cases, Hamas is worse than Islamic State, so it is a danger to all of us, not just Israel,” the diplomat continued.
Source: Krone
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