Russia’s foreign minister said Israel’s retaliation against Hamas terrorists in Gaza goes against international law and will lead to a crisis that will last decades.
Sergei Lavrov made his comments, the Kremlin’s most critical of Israel yet, in an interview with Belarus’ state news agency Belta, it reported on Saturday.
“While we condemn terrorism, we categorically do not agree that terrorism can be responded to by violating the rules of international humanitarian law, including the indiscriminate use of force against targets where civilians are known to be present, including hostages who have been been taken,” Lavrov told reporters. agency.
“If Gaza is destroyed and two million people are expelled, as some politicians in Israel and abroad propose, it will create a catastrophe that will last for many decades, if not centuries,” he added.
“It is necessary to stop and announce humanitarian programs to save the blocked population.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Israeli bombing of Gaza goes against international law. AP The Israeli military fired mortar shells into the Gaza Strip on Saturday in retaliation for Hamas attacks in the country earlier this month. AFP via Getty Images
Russia has called for an immediate ceasefire in the region.
This week, the Kremlin rolled out the red carpet for senior Hamas leaders in Moscow, infuriating Israeli officials.
War between Israel and Hamas: how we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after seizing the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: The terrorist group Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections.
2007: Hamas takes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches a military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fire rockets at the city of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early morning ambush on October 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli cities.
The terrorists killed more than 1,400 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200 and took at least 200 hostage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce: “We are at war” and promised that Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
Health officials in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, report that at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 wounded since the war began.
Russian Foreign Ministry officials met with Hamas leaders Bassem Naeem and Mousa Abu Marzouk on Thursday.
They posed with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, Putin’s special envoy to the Middle East, who also met with Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani on Thursday.
The Israeli bombing of Gaza comes weeks after Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel, killing 1,400 people, most of them civilians.Getty Images
The attacks followed an Oct. 7 raid by Hamas terrorists into Israel, which left 1,400 Israelis dead, most of them civilians.
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Hamas also took more than 200 hostages.
Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry reported Friday that 7,326 Palestinians had been killed since Israel’s bombardment began.
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