A group of Jewish rabbis called for a ceasefire in Gaza
Jewish religious leaders representing a group of rabbis and rabbinical students from Israel, North America and Europe called on Tuesday for the United Nations to facilitate a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
According to ArabNews, rabbis supporting a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip conveyed this message to the United Nations General Assembly to ask America to stop vetoing the peace proposal and that a ceasefire should be declared immediately. A UN spokesman reported on the presence of these rabbis: “A group of 49 Jewish rabbis visited the UN on Tuesday. They met in the chambers of the Security Council and the General Assembly." Stephen Dujarric said: “Their request was for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and that is our request at the United Nations. Protests have intensified in America against Joe Biden's government's support for the Israeli regime and Tel Aviv's war against the people of Gaza, as in other parts of the world. In America, protesters disrupted some important events on the occasion of the Christmas and New Year holidays, including the Thanksgiving ceremony in New York. Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Petra De Sauter said on Tuesday the country must act against the threat of genocide in the Gaza Strip and cannot stand by. She wrote on the X Twitter account that she would invite the government to support South Africa's complaint to the Hague court over genocide in the Gaza Strip. De Sauter said: Belgium cannot stand by and watch the enormous human suffering in the Gaza Strip. "Gaza is the worst place on earth and it is becoming uninhabitable," said Adnan Abu Hassan, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.
He added: There are 1.9 million displaced people in the region, of whom about 1.4 million live in 155 schools and shelters run by the United Nations. Abu Hassan said: "Most Gazans have been forced to flee to the southern Gaza city of Rafah near the Egyptian border, and the number of displaced people is likely to reach 1.5 million." Majid Al Ansari, spokesman for the Qatari Foreign Ministry, once again called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and added: “The continuation of the war in Gaza is the cause of all the current crises in the region and ending the war will lead to an end to the escalation.” He said: “An immediate end to the war in the Gaza Strip is the first step towards a long journey of peace.” World Catholic leader Pope Francis warned on Monday that world peace is under threat from conflict, with the latest war taking place in the Gaza Strip. He said: "We once again demand that the war be stopped and aid sent to Gaza, and we condemn the attacks on children and civilians in the Gaza Strip." Pope Francis added: “Israeli military operations have created a dangerous humanitarian crisis and unimaginable suffering in the Gaza Strip.” The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm on October 7 in response to more than seven decades of occupation of Palestine and nearly two decades of siege of Gaza, as well as the imprisonment and torture of thousands of Palestinians. The operation was one of the deadliest attacks on the regime. Hamas militants entered the occupied territories through border barriers, attacked villages and, in addition to killing large numbers of Israelis, captured some of them. In response, the Israeli regime launched powerful attacks on the Gaza Strip. To date, more than 22,000 Palestinians have been martyred.
