2023-11-03 01:16:00
The Israeli bombings on Gaza have already left more than 9 thousand dead. Photo: AFP
The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Mohamed Shtayé, asked the Norwegian authorities this Thursday to put pressure in international forums to achieve a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as well as the end of the attacks by Israeli forces and settlers on the population of the West Bank.
Shtayé had a telephone conversation with the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide, to whom he conveyed the need to put an end to the attacks to ensure that humanitarian aid can be delivered. correctly and the injured are cared for in the best possible way, according to the Europa Press news agency.
Furthermore, he asked Norway, as a sponsor of the International Aid Committee for the Palestinian People, to “play a role in the ceasefire and lead an international relief effort” for the Gaza Strip.
He also described the aggressions against the West Bank, represented in “daily raids, including murders and arrests, raising barriers, separating areas from each other and the terror of the settlers, protected by the occupation army.”
And he stressed the need to work on a political solution to end the conflict through a “comprehensive and fair solution to the Palestinian issue, based on international legitimacy and United Nations resolutions.”
The Palestinian Prime Minister spoke with the Norwegian Foreign Minister
The West Bank was already going through its most violent period in years before the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, which left more than 1,400 dead, mostly civilians, and the kidnapping of around 240, who were taken hostage to Gaza, among them about twenty of Argentine nationality.
More than 125 Palestinians were killed by the Army or Israeli settlers in the West Bank since those attacks by the Palestinian Islamist movement that governs Gaza, to which Israel responded with a wave of bombings and a ground offensive in this enclave.
Hamas said it launched its attacks in Israel in retaliation for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the blockade of Gaza imposed by the Israeli government since the Islamist movement took control of the region after ousting the PA in 2007.
According to the Hamas Health Ministry, the Israeli bombings launched in retaliation In this Palestinian territory they killed around 9,061 people and left 32,000 injured in three weeks.
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