Europa Press, Afp, The Independent and Reuters
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, p. 22
Brussels. The president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, yesterday condemned the savagery of Hamas, a movement that he blamed for the suffering of the Palestinian people without referring to Israel’s incessant bombings in Gaza, which in one year have left 41,909 Palestinians dead and 97,303 injured.
For Von der Leyen, the Hamas assault on Israeli territory, which left around 1,200 dead and around 250 hostages, on October 7, 2023, triggered a spiral of violence that has brought the entire region to a state of extreme tension and volatilityand called the responsibility and moderation of the parties, who must commit to reducing current tensions.
The head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, regretted the loss and dehumanization in Gaza a year after the violent incursion of the Islamic resistance movement.
He noted that 12 months of war transformed the Gaza Strip into a unrecognizable sea of debris and one grave for thousands of people, among whom there are too many childrenthey are even 12 months of unspeakable suffering for the hostages in Gaza and their families, who live in limbo, in a deeply traumatized society.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, indicated in X that The pain is still as vivid a year later of the Hamas attack.
As the Eiffel Tower turned off its lights in memory of the victims, Macron also had words for the victims, the hostages and families whose hearts are broken by absence or waiting. Shortly before noon, the president received the families of two French hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, accompanied by the chief rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia. Nor did he allude to the Palestinian victims.
The president sparked a controversy on Saturday by calling for countries to stop hand over weapons [a Israel] to fight in Gaza and thus facilitate a political solution.
But on Sunday, in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he reaffirmed the unwavering commitment of France with the security of Israel.
British Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated that his country will not falter in the search for peace in the Middle East.
Starmer mentioned that We are absolutely working with our allies to reduce tension throughout the region. Iran needs to take responsibility and be held accountable for what it is doing, and that is why it is important, in my opinion, for the G-7 (Group of Seven) to speak so forcefully, along with a coordinated and collaborative approach..
The president of Türkiye, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, assured that Israel sooner or later he will pay the price of his genocide in Gaza and stressed that Benjamin Netanyahu, He must be stopped just as Hitler was, with a common alliance between humanity.
The entire Middle East is on the verge of a total conflagrationsaid the head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell.
A year after the terrible attack against Israel, the situation is only getting worse. The people of the region are more insecure than ever and are trapped in an endless cycle of violence, hatred and revenge.he pointed out.
For his part, Pope Francis denounced the shameful inability of the international community and the most powerful countries to silence the weapons and to stop the escalation of violence.
It seems that few people care about what is most needed and what is most desired: dialogue and peacestated the Argentine in an open letter to Catholics in the region.