Regrets that the hostilities in Gaza “have caused unnecessary human suffering”
May 15. (EUROPE PRESS) –
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has praised the mediators of the ceasefire between Islamic Jihad and Israel for the Gaza Strip, stressing Egypt’s “key role” in ending hostilities.
Guterres, who has also positively assessed the “efforts” of Qatar, Lebanon and the United States, has called “on all parties to respect the ceasefire,” according to his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, in a statement.
Thus, the Secretary General has “welcomed the agreement with satisfaction” and has conveyed “his deepest condolences to the victims of violence.”
“The hostilities have caused unnecessary human suffering”, can be read in the letter, in which Guterres has reiterated that “only a negotiated sustainable political solution will lead to a lasting peace and put an end, once and for all, to these devastating cycles of violence”.
The attacks in the Gaza Strip have intensified since last Tuesday, when Israel began the so-called ‘Operation Shield and Arrow’, directed in principle against the Islamic Jihad group.
The provisional balance of the clashes since last Tuesday leaves more than 33 Palestinians dead and 147 wounded — according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza — by a deceased Israeli civilian, to which must be added the death of a Gazan who worked in a greenhouse near the Israeli farming community of Shokeda.
