Russian Federation Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov was summoned to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the morning of Sunday, October 29, to express his protest against the visit of a delegation from the Palestinian Hamas movement to Moscow. This was reported by RIA NewsCiting the press service of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted, Ambassador Simone Halperin, Deputy Director General for Eurasian Affairs at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the Russian diplomat: “Israel also seriously considers Moscow’s failure to unequivocally and clearly condemn the terrorist organization Hamas. “Like Russia’s actions in international organizations.”
They stated that hosting Hamas leaders, who were directly responsible for the “bloody terrorist attack on October 7, the hostage taking” and the “destruction of more than 1,400 Israelis”, created the impression that it legitimized terrorism against Israelis.
It was learned that a Hamas delegation visited Moscow before this; Israel described the visit as support for terrorism and called for no contact with the delegation. The Kremlin said Russia wants to continue dialogue with all parties to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Russian President Press Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also answered a question about Hamas’s “Kremlin program” in Moscow and emphasized that there will be no contact. More details in the material “Newspapers.Ru”.
7 October Hamas forces launched Several thousand rockets were launched into Israel and the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was announced. Thousands of militants invaded Israeli territory, seizing dozens of military equipment and more than a hundred hostages. In this context, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The Israel Defense Forces intervention operation was called “Iron Swords” and one of its goals was the destruction of Hamas. Israeli Air Force applied Hundreds of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip were attacked, and Israel’s National Security Council decided to cut off the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the strip.
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