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Brics Leaders Condemn Israeli War Crimes in Gaza, Call For End of Hostilities

A delegation of Arab-Islamic countries also met Chinese and Russian foreign ministers earlier this week in order to push for an end of of Israeli violence against Palestinians and lasting peace in the region

By Abdul Rahman / Peoples Dispatch, November 24, 2023

Leaders of the BRICS bloc called for an immediate end to the hostilities in Palestine in an online meeting held on Tuesday, November 21.

The meeting was attended by the heads of government of Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, and the UAE. The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres also joined the meeting. India and Argentina were represented by their foreign ministers. 

The meeting was chaired by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Though the meeting failed to issue a joint statement most of the leaders in the meeting referred to the targeting of civilians in Gaza by Israel as “war crimes” and asked for immediate humanitarian ceasefire. 

The chair’s summary issued after the meeting condemned “any kind of individual or mass forcible transfer and deportation of Palestinians from their own land.” It also called any such transfer a breach of the Geneva Convention and war crimes.  

Ramaphosa also said that, “a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can be achieved by peaceful means.”……………………………………………………………more https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/24/brics-leaders-condemn-israeli-war-crimes-in-gaza-call-for-end-of-hostilities/

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