Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the US of impeding UN Security Council resolutions on a Gaza ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
After talking with his Egyptian counterpart on Monday, Lavrov stated that Russia welcomed ‘any steps to conclude the bloodshed’, alleging that the US ‘does no longer are looking to pass any decisions’ that can consequence in this.
Lavrov described the U.S.-sponsored resolution endorsing a ceasefire thought as an ’empty fraction of paper’, along with that Russia abstained from the vote on the resolution. ‘No promises of the united states had been fulfilled’, Lavrov stated.
A one-week truce in November resulted in scores of hostages held by Hamas being launched. Nevertheless since then, makes an try to stable an agreement contain many occasions stalled, with Israel and Hamas accusing one one more of making fresh and unreasonable calls for.
Hamas is pushing for an entire withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, nonetheless Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stood firm in his stance that troops must remain on the Philadelphi hall on the Gaza-Egypt border.