The dramatic resurgence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a consequence of the “failure of US policy in the Middle East”. Vladimir Putin says this as Russia tries to present itself as the protagonist of a mediation that will lead to a ceasefire and a resumption of negotiations to create a Palestinian state, which Moscow says is the only way to achieve peace. Russia rejects Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s allegations that Russia is “behind Hamas,” which “publicly” and “armedly” supports Palestinian militiamen, and is continuing consultations with Arab representatives that began yesterday with a visit to Moscow Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit. Today President Putin received Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani at the Kremlin. While the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to Russia said that a visit by President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to Moscow was being prepared. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed this, but emphasized that it was a trip planned before the crisis broke out and no date had yet been set. Russia, the spokesman said, wants to maintain its “historic relations” with the Palestinians, but also its good relations with Israel, since many of its citizens live in the Jewish state
. Today, the Moscow Embassy in Israel announced, among other things, that four Russians – also with Israeli citizenship – were killed in the Hamas attacks on Saturday and six others are missing. In the evening, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his telephone conversations to reach a ceasefire with Putin and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as well as with the leaders of Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar and Malaysia. The first step is for “the parties to the conflict” and thus also Israel “to minimize the damage to the civilian population and reduce it to zero,” warned Putin at his meeting with al-Sudani. The Iraqi prime minister, for his part, spoke out sharply against the Jewish state, saying Hamas’s unprecedented attacks were “a natural consequence of the actions of Israel, which continued to violate the rights of Palestinians” while “the international community stood its ground.” in silence.” However, the most serious attacks – and this is not surprising – come from Tehran. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei spoke of an “irreversible defeat of the Zionist regime at both the military and intelligence levels” and compared the Hamas attack to a “devastating earthquake.” Khamenei dismissed accusations against the Islamic Republic of directly supporting Palestinian militiamen in attacking Israel – an involvement for which even the US says there is no evidence – but warned that the Jewish state would receive “an even harder slap in the face will be received”. The face will start massacring the people of Gaza.” Across the Persian Gulf, in Saudi Arabia, the country’s crown prince and de facto leader, Mohammad bin Salman, assured in a phone call with Abu Mazen that Riyadh continues to “stand with the Palestinian people to achieve their rights.” “Rights to live in dignity, to realize their hopes and aspirations and to achieve a just and lasting peace.”
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