President Isaac Herzog lands in Rwanda as part of ongoing international efforts to secure the release of the 130 hostages abducted on October 7 still held in Hamas captivity in Gaza, his office says.
During his visit, arranged at the invitation of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Herzog will participate in a ceremony marking 30 years since the Rwandan genocide, alongside other international diplomats and heads of state.
Some 800,000 members of Rwanda’s minority Tutsi and Hutu populations were slaughtered by Hutu militias over a 100-day period from April 7 to July 15, 1994, during the Rwandan Civil War.
Herzog will also hold several diplomatic meetings, his office says, focused on the urgent need to secure the release of the hostages and the global fight against terrorism.
Herzog is the first Israeli leader to visit a country in Africa since the October 7 Hamas massacre in southern Israel and the outbreak of war in Gaza.
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