Netanyahu voices ‘dissatisfaction’ to Putin over UN vote in favor of Gaza ceasefire
Arab, Muslim FMs dissatisfied with disruption of UN Gaza resolutions
Hamas attacks do not justify Israel’s punishment of Palestinians: Russia’s Lavrov
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“The prime minister expressed his dissatisfaction with the positions expressed against Israel by Russian representatives at the UN and in other forums” when he spoke with Putin on Sunday, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
“Any country that had been struck with a criminal terrorist assault such as Israel experienced would have reacted with no less force than Israel is using,” he told Putin.
The United States vetoed Friday’s Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Netanyahu also voiced “robust disapproval” of Russia’s “dangerous” cooperation with Iran, the Israeli statement said.
On October 7, Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out a shock attack on southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli officials.
In Israel’s retaliatory air, ground and sea assault targeting Hamas, at least 17,700 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.
Arab, Muslim FMs dissatisfied with disruption of UN Gaza resolutions
Arab and Muslim foreign ministers on Saturday expressed their dissatisfaction with the disruption of United Nation’s Security Council resolutions regarding the conflict in Gaza during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Saudi Foreign ministry said.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Trudeau as part of the ministers’ international tour to discuss the Gaza war, to push for humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and to call for a ceasefire.
The members of the committee expressed their dissatisfaction “with the disruption of Security Council and United Nations resolutions demanding a ceasefire, and to take serious and urgent steps to ensure the securing of relief corridors for the delivery of urgent humanitarian, food and medical aid to the Gaza Strip,” according to the Saudi foreign ministry on Sunday.
The meeting came after The United States on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate ceasefire in the intense fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Weeks of fighting have left more than 17,487 people dead in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.
The foreign ministers, who were in the US prior to their Canada visit, emphasized the importance of implementing “an immediate ceasefire, in order to ensure the return of security and stability to the Gaza Strip.”
The delegation reiterated its calls to the intentional community to assume its responsibility towards the accelerating events in Gaza while “expressing their concern about the widening of blatant attacks by the occupation forces on civilians and the repeated violations of international law.”
Hamas attacks do not justify Israel’s punishment of Palestinians: Russia’s Lavrov
Israeli tanks battled their way to the center of Khan Younis on Sunday in a major new push into the heart of the main city in the southern Gaza Strip.
President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly blamed the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas on the failure of years of US diplomacy in the Middle East, while aiming to position Russia as an important player with ties to all the major actors in the region.