{"id":26913,"date":"2023-11-21T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/brics-calls-for-immediate-humanitarian-truce-in-gaza-south-africa-decries-israeli-war-crimes-and-genocide\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T17:30:05","slug":"brics-calls-for-immediate-humanitarian-truce-in-gaza-south-africa-decries-israeli-war-crimes-and-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/brics-calls-for-immediate-humanitarian-truce-in-gaza-south-africa-decries-israeli-war-crimes-and-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"BRICS calls for immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza, South Africa decries Israeli \u2018war crimes and genocide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The BRICS group of nations on Tuesday called for an immediate and sustained humanitarian truce in Gaza during an extraordinary summit where chair South Africa accused Israel of war crimes and \u201cgenocide\u201d in the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p>Pretoria hosted a virtual meeting of BRICS \u2014 a group of major emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa \u2014 aimed at drawing up a common response to Israel\u2019s continuing military offensive in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe called for an immediate, durable, and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities,\u201d the group said in a summary of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reiterated our strong support for regional and international efforts aimed at achieving an immediate cessation of hostilities, ensuring the protection of civilians and the provision of humanitarian aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fighting has raged in Gaza after Hamas fighters killed around 1,200 people during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1779807\">cross-border raids<\/a> on October 7 \u2014 the deadliest attack in Israel\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>In retaliation, Israel launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1790617\">relentless bombing campaign<\/a> and ground offensive in Gaza.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1790673\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to the government in the besieged strip, the war has killed more than 13,300 people, thousands of them children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe collective punishment of Palestinian civilians through the unlawful use of force by Israel is a war crime. The deliberate denial of medicine, fuel, food and water to the residents of Gaza is tantamount to genocide,\u201d said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said a truce agreement with Israel was in sight, with mediator Qatar adding negotiations to free hostages seized by the group were at their \u201cclosest point\u201d to a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders and representatives of BRICS said a long-term diplomatic solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was needed to ensure peace, with Chinese President Xi Jinping calling for an \u201cinternational peace conference\u201d to achieve that goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere can be no sustainable peace and security in the Middle East without a just solution to the question of Palestine,\u201d Xi said, speaking through an interpreter.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"barbaric-acts\" href=\"#barbaric-acts\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>\u2018Barbaric acts\u2019<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1791096\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>China has historically been sympathetic to the Palestinians and supportive of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.<\/p>\n<p>And it has this year sought to play a greater role in the Middle East, facilitating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1741433\">historic rapprochement<\/a> between Saudi Arabia and Iran and sending an envoy to the region to push for a ceasefire amid Israel\u2019s incursion.<\/p>\n<p>BRICS, an acronym for its member countries, sees itself as a counterweight to the US and Western-led global order.<\/p>\n<p>Describing Hamas\u2019s attacks and hostage-taking as \u201cbarbaric acts\u201d, Brazil\u2019s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said they did \u201cnot justify the use of indiscriminate and disproportionate force against civilians\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has accused the West of stoking tensions in the Middle East and criticised Israel for its conduct in the conflict, said a \u201clong-term and sustainable ceasefire\u201d was key to \u201cprevent other states from being drawn into the war\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"two-state-solution\" href=\"#two-state-solution\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>\u2018Two-state solution\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe concerns of the Palestinian people must be addressed in a serious and sustainable manner, this can only happen with the two-state solution that is based on peaceful coexistence,\u201d said India\u2019s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates \u2014 countries that are all due to join BRICS in January 2024 \u2014 were also invited to the talks.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has long been a vocal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1789852\">supporter of the Palestinian cause<\/a>, with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party often linking it to its own struggle against apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, it recalled all its diplomats from Israel and last week it joined four other nations in calling for an International Criminal Court investigation into the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Israel\u2019s foreign ministry said it had also recalled its ambassador to Pretoria for consultations.<\/p>\n<p>The summit came as a delegation of foreign ministers of the Palestinian Authority, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan hold talks this week on the conflict.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BRICS group of nations on Tuesday called for an immediate and sustained humanitarian truce in Gaza during an extraordinary summit where chair South Africa accused Israel of war crimes and \u201cgenocide\u201d in the Palestinian territory. Pretoria hosted a virtual meeting of BRICS \u2014 a group of major emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/11\/21215045808ae11.jpg?r=215146","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}