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View all search resultsIndonesia has been participating in diplomatic efforts to promote a permanent cease-fire in the conflict and wider access for humanitarian assistance, but Tuesday's UN meeting was the first time the country’s representatives staged a walkout on the issue.
The failure to ensure that Israel acts in compliance with international law amid the stalled process toward realizing a two-state solution could further plunge the Middle East into a wider open conflict, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has warned.
Thick smoke hung over the northern town of Jabalia, which is also home to Gaza's largest refugee camp, and residents reported persistent aerial bombardment and shelling from Israeli tanks, which they said had moved further into the town.
The Foreign Minister has lamented the US veto against a UNSC draft resolution calling for a cease-fire in the war-torn Palestinian territory, joining the chorus of countries around the world condemning the move.
Fighting escalated and the Palestinian death toll rose on Friday, with Israel pounding the enclave from north to south in an expanded phase of the two-month-old war against the Islamist group Hamas.
Following their four-country tour last week, foreign ministers of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries, including Retno LP Marsudi, on Wednesday hammered their push for a permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, this time at the United Nations’ highest security body.
The world must “call a spade a spade” and admit that Israel’s actions at the Gaza Strip have violated international laws, Indonesia’s top diplomat said during a day-long debate in New York, the United States on the unceasing violence between Tel Aviv and Gaza’s ruling militant group, Hamas.
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