Concerted pressure needed for ceasefire in Gaza: PM

Doha: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has said that confronting current challeng...

Doha: Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has said that confronting current challenges requires intensifying regional and international efforts to exert continued pressure for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

“The regional challenges that surround our region and the world require us to make diligent efforts to confront their effects at the political, security and economic levels, and on top of those challenges is what we are witnessing in the continuation of the Israeli aggression against Gaza for 8 months, which represents a turning point in the history of the Middle East region and the world.

"We still witness the inability of the international community to stop this barbaric war that resulted in the death of more than 36,000 people and the injury of thousands of our Palestinian brothers as a result of the brutal Israeli aggression,” the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs further said.

H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said this in his opening address while chairing yesterday the 160th ministerial meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), held in Doha.

On the sidelines of the Gulf ministerial meeting, two separate joint ministerial meetings were held between the GCC countries, with each of the Republic of Turkiye and the Republic of Yemen.