He has arrived from London. “The decision of the Israeli government to even more intensify its offensive is wrong and we urge you to reconsider immediately,” said British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, early in the morning in a statement that has been published in X. Hard has been the Turkish reaction, his Minister of Foreign Affairs has condemned “firmly” the plan promoted by the executive of Benjamín Netan and approved in the early hours of this Friday by the Safety Cabinet of Israel.
Ankara has demanded that Israel stops her war plans, agrees a high fire and begins negotiations to seek the solution of the two states. Türkiye has already spoken that every step that the Netanyahu government takes “to continue with the genocide in Gaza,” according to his own words, is “a hard blow to world security and peace.” So he asked the UN Security Council to “take binding measures against Israel.”
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has demanded in a statement the “immediate cessation” of the plan “to take total military control of the Gaza Strip”. And he recalled that “this new climb will cause more massive forced displacements, more deaths, more unbearable suffering, meaningless destruction and atrocious crimes.”
“Every day the humanitarian crisis worsens and the hostages kidnapped by Hamas are still in frightful and inhuman conditions. What is needed is a high fire, an increase in humanitarian aid,” Starmer has developed in his statement, who excludes the Palestinian terrorist group to play “any role in the future of Gaza.”
The Israeli Government’s decision to further escalate its offensive in Gaza is wrong, and we urge it to reconsider immediately.
Every day the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens and hostages taken by Hamas are being held in appalling and inhuman conditions.
We need a ceasefire…
– Keir Starmer (@keir_starmer)
The British statement begins by asking Israel for a change of plans. But it also puts Hamas in his spotlight, the Palestinian militia for which he asks to be “unarmed.”
London, who has warned Netanyahu that, has opted for the “long -term solution to ensure peace as part of the two states” and ultimately achieve a better future for Palestinians and Israelis. “But without the two parties negotiating in good faith, this perspective evaporates before our eyes.”
