The US President, Joe Biden, reiterated this Friday by telephone to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the need for a Palestinian State to be part of the post-war scenario in Gaza. Biden has affirmed that it is not impossible for Netanyahu to accept a two-state solution, despite the Israeli prime minister reiterating on Thursday his opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state “under any circumstances.”
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has advocated imposing the creation of a Palestinian State despite Israel’s current refusal. “We believe that a two-state solution must be imposed from the outside to impose peace,” Borrell said during his speech at the investiture ceremony as honorary doctor of the University of Valladolid, where he warned that if there is no intervention In this way, the “spiral of hate will continue generation following generation.”
A 17-year-old Palestinian with American nationality died this Friday in a confrontation with Israeli forces in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health said. The young man’s uncle told Archyde.com that his death occurred in a confrontation in which Palestinians threw stones at Israeli soldiers.
For his part, the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, has defended the need for the recognition of a Palestinian State because the Palestinians “should not be condemned to being a people of refugees.”
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, has met in Moscow with the number two of the Hamas political bureau, Musa abu Marzuq, to whom he has reiterated Russia’s request that all civilian hostages captured by the Islamist group be immediately released. Palestinian last October. This Friday was the second meeting held in Russia between representatives of Foreign Affairs and Abu Marzuq since the beginning of the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Since the day the war between Israel and Hamas began on October 7, 2023, two mothers have died every hour in the Gaza Strip due to the conflict, according to a UN Women report on the effects of the crisis on women. Palestinians. For its part, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) indicated this Friday that almost 20,000 babies have been born in the “hell of Gaza” under conditions that “go beyond imagination.”