Qatar stresses urgent need to resume dialogue to implement Gaza ceasefire agreement

New York: The State of Qatar has stressed the urgent need to resume dialogue in order to implement the stages of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza S...

New York: The State of Qatar has stressed the urgent need to resume dialogue in order to implement the stages of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip in order to end the war on the Strip.

Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations HE Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, in a statement by the State of Qatar to the quarterly open debate meeting of the Security Council on the situation in the Middle-East including the question of Palestine, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, said that the meeting of the Security Council is being held in light of unprecedented catastrophic humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip, especially after the resumption of war on it.

Her excellency stressed that the State of Qatar condemns in the strongest terms the resumption of the Israeli occupation aggression on the Strip, and considers it a blatant challenge to the international will to support peace, in particular the ceasefire agreement reached through the efforts of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the United States of America in January.

Her Excellency emphasized that the State of Qatar reiterated its categorical rejection of the ongoing Israeli attacks on civilian objects, including hospitals, schools and population gatherings in the Gaza Strip, adding that it condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation bombing of the Baptist Hospital, promising it a brutal massacre against unarmed civilians and a flagrant violation of the provisions of international humanitarian law.

Her Excellency expressed the State of Qatar's strong condemnation of the decision of the Israeli occupation government to stop the entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and cut off electricity from the Strip, and considers it a flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement, international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, expressing Qatar's rejection of the use of food as a weapon of war and starvation of civilians, calling on the international community to oblige Israel to ensure safe, sustainable and unhindered humanitarian aid access to all areas of the Strip.