Russia and Iran’s foreign ministers have on Sunday called for a ceasefire as the death toll hits 14,000 in Gaza.
The officials of the two countries said that urgent assistance must be given to the civilian population there.
The death toll from fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants in the Palestinian territory has reached 14,000 since the war began on October 7.
Hamas gunmen killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and captured around 240 more as hostages, according to Israel, when they surged over the militarised Gaza border.
The Hamas government said more than 5,500 children were among the dead, alongside 3,500 women, with 30,000 more people wounded. Its health ministry has previously said it can no longer give exact tolls as intense fighting has prevented bodies from being recovered.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian at the request of Tehran said; “During the conversation, main attention was focused on the current situation in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”
“General concern was expressed about the ongoing armed confrontation in the Gaza Strip,” it said. “The need for an early ceasefire and urgent assistance to the affected civilian population was stressed.”
Russia, which has relationships with Iran, Hamas, and major Arab powers as well as with the Palestinians and Israel, has repeatedly accused the United States and the West of ignoring the need for an independent Palestinian state within 1967 borders.
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