Algerian Senate President meets with Hamas official in Gaza
Urges the international community to “protect Palestinian civilians”
Salah Guzil, chairman of the Algerian National Committee (Senate), reaffirmed his “unwavering and firm support” for Palestine during a meeting with the visiting Hamas administrator in the Gaza Strip on the 15th (local time), the committee officially announced.
According to Xinhua and TASS news agencies, Chairman Guzil and Hamas’s overseas representative, Sami Abu Zuhri, met in downtown Algiers and discussed the war situation in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has recently strengthened its airstrikes and ordered forced evacuation of Palestinians, according to a statement from the committee.
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At this meeting, Chairman Guzil emphasized that the international community must protect the Palestinian people in accordance with international law and human rights law.
Abu Juri expressed his gratitude for Algeria’s steadfast support for the Palestinian people and their founding will, a parliamentary statement said.
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) launched a surprise attack by land on October 7 after dozens of its troops fired thousands of rockets at villages across the Israeli border. Subsequently, Israel’s large-scale retaliatory war against the Gaza Strip began.
The fighting has already continued for 9 days, and as of the 15th, the death toll in Israel and the Gaza Strip exceeded 4,000.
The Ministry of Health in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Palestine, announced that the cumulative death toll as of this evening was 2,670. As Israel continued bombing every day ahead of the deployment of ground troops, the number of injured in the Gaza Strip increased to about 9,600.
Additionally, the number of deaths counted by the Israeli side as of today is about 1,500, and the total number of deaths on both sides is about 4,100.
Israel ordered residents of northern Gaza to evacuate to the south within 24 hours, but is showing a slight change in attitude by postponing the deadline as international opposition and criticism pours in.
However, there are still concerns that Israel, which has declared a large-scale subjugation operation, will somehow destroy Hamas’ stronghold and proceed to ‘occupy’ it.
Source: Donga
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