Russia’s foreign ministry on Monday said that the Israeli army’s use of force against Palestinians during protests inside the Gaza Strip was unacceptable.
In a statement the Russian Foreign Ministry criticized what it called Israel’s “indiscriminate use of force against the civilian population.”
According to the ministry’s information and press Department as a result of the Israeli army’s use of firearms to suppress Palestinian protests on April 6-7 “10 Palestinians” were killed including one journalist and two teenagers and over a thousand were poisoned with tear gas or injured. Thus the total number of slain Palestinians in the past two weeks of mass protests has reached 30 people.
“On the morning of April 9 an Israeli aircraft caused several missile strikes on facilities in Gaza. Considering that the indiscriminate use of force against the civilian population is absolutely unacceptable we once again call upon the Palestinians and Israelis to refrain from steps that will provoke further growth of dangerous tension “the ministry said.
Moscow is convinced that under the current circumstances not only urgent measures for stabilizing and de-escalating the situation are needed more than ever but also concrete political efforts aimed at achieving a lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis on an internationally known legal basis according to the ministry.
