“The chronic Palestinian problem, which has remained unresolved for many decades, the inability to create a viable and full-fledged Palestinian state in accordance with UN decisions, remains the main factor that will constantly generate instability and violence in the Middle East,” said the head of “The Russian side has repeatedly pointed out the existence of this problem, but Israeli representatives have only brushed it aside,” the Foreign Ministry noted.
According to Lavrov, the current aggravation could have been stopped from the beginning. “A week after the Hamas attack, we proposed in the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution calling for a ceasefire. This was blocked by the Americans,” the minister said. He noted that other countries also tried to achieve the adoption of a similar resolution, but without success. “We only managed to approve a toothless text that asked for the same humanitarian pause,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
“Given the intransigent attitude of the Israeli leadership to continue military action in Gaza, now extending it to Rafah, we do not see any prospect of a rapid stabilization of the situation in this sector,” Lavrov said. He also expressed concern that the crisis has not yet “reached its limit”; It has already spread to other parts of the region, to Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Yemen.
