UAE reiterates want for Gaza ceasefire

The UAE has underscored the necessity to intensify worldwide joint efforts to finish the humanitarian disaster of the Palestinian folks and obtain a right away ceasefire in Gaza, in a unprecedented session of the Islamic Conference of Information Ministers (ICIM) held by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Türkiye.

The session was held to debate endeavours to confront “the Israeli occupying authority’s disinformation and hostilities against journalists and media outlets in the occupied Palestinian territory.” The ICIM is attended by info ministers and ministers chargeable for communication within the OIC Member States.

The assertion was delivered by the UAE delegation led by Sheikh Abdulla bin Mohammed Al Hamed, Chairman of the National Media Office, who additionally reiterated the necessity to stop a spill-over of the battle that threatens regional safety and stability.

Sheikh Abdulla bin Mohammed Al Hamed underscored that for the reason that starting of the disaster, the UAE has strengthened all diplomatic and humanitarian efforts geared toward halting escalation, restoring peace, and preserving civilian lives with a major give attention to safeguarding civilians, preserving services, and securing humanitarian corridors for the supply of pressing aid and medical assist.

He highlighted the UAE’s efforts, by means of its non-permanent membership on the UN Security Council (UNSC), that efficiently led to the Security Council adopting Resolutions 2712 and 2720 (of 2023), which demanded that tangible steps be taken to extend the mandatory humanitarian assist stream to Palestinians, and safeguard the lives of UN staff and humanitarian employees on the bottom within the Strip.

Sheikh Abdulla reaffirmed the UAE’s sturdy condemnation of any compelled displacement of Palestinians, and all practices that violate the resolutions of worldwide legitimacy and worldwide and humanitarian legislation. The UAE has been steadfast in its stance on calling for paving the trail to reaching a simply peace that ensures safety and stability for the area, to finish all types of extremism, tensions and violence, and to assemble a viable political horizon to realize a complete and simply peace based mostly on the “two-state solution”.

Sheikh Abdulla confused that the UAE, underneath the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, spares no effort in delivering pressing humanitarian and aid assist to the Palestinian folks within the Gaza Strip by means of the Gallant Knight 3 humanitarian operation.

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