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[Regnum] UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for a two-week humanitarian truce in the Middle East.
“I call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire for approximately two weeks,” the secretary general said at a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo.
Guterres stated the need for urgent delivery of aid and food to the Gaza Strip.
As Regnum reported , at a UN Security Council meeting on October 18, Russia proposed including in the resolution on the situation in Gaza a clause condemning the blockade of the region by Israel. The Security Council rejected this amendment. Prior to this, on October 16, Russia proposed a resolution calling for an immediate truce and provision of humanitarian assistance. This resolution was also not adopted by the UN Security Council.
On October 16, Russian head of state Vladimir Putin , speaking by phone with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad , said that the residents of Gaza are in dire need of humanitarian assistance.
On October 19, a special flight of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived in Egypt with humanitarian aid for the residents of Gaza. The plane delivered 27 tons of food, including sugar and flour.
On the morning of October 7, the Palestinian Hamas movement carried out a large-scale rocket attack on Israeli territory. After this, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched retaliatory strikes on Gaza. As a result of the escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Israeli Ministry of Health reported 4,629 injured after Hamas attacks. For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that as a result of the attacks on Gaza, more than 3.7 thousand people were killed, and another 12 thousand were injured. In addition, 19 Russians have died in Israel since the conflict began to escalate.
In a conversation with IA Regnum on October 18, senior lecturer at the HSE School of Oriental Studies Andrei Zeltyn said that the death of hundreds of Palestinians in a hospital in the Gaza Strip resulted in mass protests around the world. However, according to the expert, one should not expect a serious escalation of the conflict, developing into a major Middle East war.
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