US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met this week with ambassadors and chiefs of mission from 17 nations whose residents have been taken hostage by Hamas in Gaza.
“The group discussed their collective call for Hamas to immediately release the hostages and ways to bring an end to the crisis,” the White House stated in an announcement Thursday.
The nations represented on the assembly have been Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand and the United Kingdom.
“Sullivan also relayed that the President (Joe Biden) continues to engage with (Israeli) Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu, the Amir of Qatar, and (Egyptian) President (Abel Fattah al) Sisi to reach a ceasefire and hostage deal,” the assertion added.
Qatar, Egypt and the US try to achieve a hostage swap deal and cease-fire in Gaza as the primary pause in late November final 12 months lasted solely every week, which resulted in restricted support coming into the Gaza Strip, in addition to exchanges of Israeli hostages for Palestinians detained in Israeli jails, most of them ladies and youngsters.
Israel at present holds not less than 9,100 Palestinians in its prisons, whereas there are an estimated 134 Israeli hostages in Gaza. Hamas has introduced the deaths of 70 of them in random Israeli airstrikes.
Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip regardless of a UN Security Council decision demanding a direct cease-fire within the enclave.
More than 35,200 Palestinians have since been killed, principally ladies and youngsters, and over 79,200 others injured since final October following an assault by the Palestinian group Hamas.
More than seven months into the Israeli battle, huge swathes of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of meals, clear water and medication.
Israel is accused of “genocide” on the International Court of Justice, which has ordered Tel Aviv to make sure that its forces don’t commit acts of genocide and take measures to ensure that humanitarian help is supplied to civilians in Gaza.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
