The foreign ministers of France, Egypt and Jordan called on Saturday for an “immediate and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza and the release of all Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
During a joint press conference in Cairo, the head of French diplomacy Stéphane Séjourné declared that his government would present “in the coming weeks” a proposed resolution to the UN Security Council which would put forward a solution “politics” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“To sustainably emerge from this crisis we need a political solution, it is known, it is the two-state solution, it is the only one that can guarantee peace and security for both Israelis and Palestinians,” he said. estimated.
This “solution” defended by the international community is rejected by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On Monday, the Security Council adopted a resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” in the war-devastated Gaza Strip. The latest report from the Ministry of Health of the Islamist movement Hamas on Saturday showed 32,705 killed, the majority of whom were women and children.
The war was sparked by an unprecedented Hamas raid on Israel on October 7, which caused the deaths of some 1,160 Israelis, most of them civilians, according to an AFP report based on official Israeli figures.
The International Court of Justice on Thursday ordered Israel to ensure urgent humanitarian aid reaches civilians in Gaza, stressing that “famine has set in” after more than five months of fighting.
But “international law no longer has any impact on the ground when it comes to Israel,” lamented Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi at the press conference in Cairo on Saturday.
“The real disaster is the inability of the international community to prevent” the humanitarian catastrophe, he said.