Arab leaders at a summit of world leaders in Cairo focused on ways to de-escalate the raging Israel-Hamas war are using the opportunity to castigate the international community for not condemning Israel’s bombing campaign on Gaza with the same force they did Hamas’s slaughter of 1,400 civilians in southern Israel on October 7.
The response of the world, the office of President Abdel Fatah el-Sissi says, displayed a “shortcoming in the values of the international community in addressing crises.”
“While we see one place officials rushing and competing to promptly condemn the killing of innocent people, we find incomprehensible hesitation in denouncing the same act in another place,” Sissi says in reference to fierce Western condemnation of Hamas’s attack on Israel and a weaker reaction to Palestinian suffering.
Representatives from Arab and European nations at the summit are calling for more humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza and appealing for the protection of civilians there.
The summit does not immediately produce any statements about the prospects of a ceasefire.
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