Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says that multilateral institutions are failing to resolve international conflicts and criticized Israeli actions in Gaza.
“Israel’s behavior has no explanation: with the pretext of fighting Hamas, it is killing women and children,” he says after a meeting with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.
Lula said there would not be peace without the establishment of a Palestinian state and called for an immediate ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Israel launched its offensive against Hamas in Gaza after the terror group stormed across the Gaza border on October 7, killing some 1,200 people, most of them civilians in their homes and at a music festival and taking another 253 hostages.
Israel says it does everything it can to avoid civilian casualties but blames Hamas, which has built heavily fortified terror tunnels under homes, hospitals and schools, for using Gaza’s civilian population as human shields.
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