The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, expressed hope that Spain could host an international peace conference in the future, where the parties will try to find a way out of the worsening Palestinian-Israeli conflict. transmits European Press. According to him, this summit should be held as soon as possible.
Borrell acknowledged that the current conflict has forced the international community to make a political commitment to a two-state solution [речь о создании независимой Палестины рядом с Израилем] real. The report added that 30 years after the Oslo accords, little or nothing had been done to solve this problem.
The proposal to hold the summit in Spain was expressed by the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, Pedro Sanchez, on October 26. As Borrell noted, the Spanish side supports this proposal because it hosted a meeting between Israelis and Palestinians in 1991.
On October 7, Hamas launched thousands of rockets into Israel and announced the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Thousands of militants invaded Israeli territory, seizing dozens of military equipment and more than a hundred hostages. Against this background, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the country was at war.
The IDF’s intervention operation was called “Iron Swords” and one of its goals was the destruction of Hamas. The Israeli Air Force launched an attack on hundreds of militant targets in the Gaza Strip, and the country’s National Security Council decided to cut off water, food, goods, electricity and fuel supplies to the region. Israel announced to the UN on October 13 that 1.1 million Palestinians would be evacuated to southern Gaza ahead of the ground operation.
Previously EU spoke He opposes Hamas’ participation in a future conference on conflicts in the Middle East.