{"id":1685,"date":"2024-02-26T12:09:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2024-02-26T20:16:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T20:16:35","slug":"saudi-arabia-renews-call-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/saudi-arabia-renews-call-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia renews call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabia, on Monday, renewed its call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip amid a deadly Israeli offensive on the Palestinian enclave since 7 October, Anadolu Agency reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe call on the international community to shoulder its responsibility to put an end to escalation and war, protect civilians and pave the way for a clear and legitimate peace process that includes all parties,\u201d Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan, said in a speech to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The top diplomat demanded a \u201cclear-cut, legitimate peace process\u201d to stop Palestinians being \u201csubjected to the worst violations of human rights\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe should dissipate doubts about the right of Palestinians to live in security and their right to self-determination through a legitimate process that is irreversible for them to have their independent State,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Saudi Minister also warned of \u201ccatastrophic consequences\u201d from a planned Israeli ground attack on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tel Aviv plans a ground offensive in Rafah, where 1.4 million people have taken refuge, despite international warnings and calls to avoid any such attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel has launched a deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since a 7 October cross-border incursion by Hamas, killing more than 29,782 people and causing mass destruction and shortages of necessities, while nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, since then, it has been revealed by\u00a0<i>Haaretz\u00a0<\/i>that\u00a0helicopters and tanks of the Israeli army had, in fact, killed many of the 1,139 soldiers and\u00a0civilians claimed by Israel to have been killed by the Palestinian Resistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Israeli war on Gaza has pushed 85 per cent of the Territory\u2019s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60 per cent of the enclave\u2019s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"iBfuuV5zhIc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Benjamin Netanyahu: Any deal wouldn&#039;t prevent Rafah assault | Israel-Hamar War | WION News\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iBfuuV5zhIc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"swift-in-viewport\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice.\u00a0An\u00a0interim ruling\u00a0in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"FBxsmi04WgQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Israel-Hamas war: Saudi Arabia calls for immediate ceasefire, wants Palestinian issue resolved\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FBxsmi04WgQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia, on Monday, renewed its call for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip amid a deadly Israeli offensive on the Palestinian enclave since 7 October, Anadolu Agency reports. \u201cWe call on the international community to shoulder its responsibility to put an end to escalation and war, protect civilians and pave the way for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-middle-east","8":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}