According to him, Israel believes that it has every right to use any available means to eliminate Gaza-based radical Palestinian group Hamas. "We can see the results of such a policy in real time. In fact, residential areas are being flattened; over 18,000 civilians have already been killed and the number keeps growing every day, with the majority of those killed being women and children. The situation is horrific," he pointed out.
"From the very beginning, we strongly condemned - particularly, in the president’s statement - Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack on Israeli civilians, which claimed numerous lives, and urgently highlighted the need to suppress such terrorist activities. However, at the same time, we cannot recognize those methods being employed against Hamas as acceptable because they have, in fact, mostly caused harm to civilians," Lavrov noted.
"I have recently heard, I think, Mr. [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu say that there is an approximately one-to-one ratio between killed terrorists and civilians. This cannot be verified but that doesn’t look to be the case," the top Russian diplomat said. "It’s actually impossible to check the situation because even UN workers are facing enormous difficulties not just in moving around the Gaza Strip but even in staying there, to say nothing of the some 100 UN employees who have lost their lives in Gaza - a record number for any conflict," he added.
Today, in Lavrov’s words, the goal is "primarily to end the bloodshed and ensure the full implementation of international humanitarian law, including the protection of civilians during combat operations and the prevention of indiscriminate shelling attacks on areas where there may be civilian infrastructure, let alone peaceful [civilian] residents."...[TASS]
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