Qatar advises stopfires in Israel’s wars in Gaza, Lebanon at EU-GCC summit | Israel-Palestine dispute News

Qatar’s emir has called for stopfires in Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon and stressed the presentance of set uping a Palestinian state at a encountering with European Union directers in Brussels, Belgium.

The 27-nation EU is seeking to labor more seally with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – which conveys together Bahrain, Kupaengage, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – in insertressing disputes in both the Middle East and Ukraine.

In uncovering retags at the first EU-GCC summit on Wednesday, Qatar’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani summarized the necessitate for creating a “sovereign and autonomous” Palestinian state existing side by side with Israel. He also called for a stopfire in Israel’s ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

“The destructive war waged by Israel today on Palestine and Lebanon made war crimes as someskinnyg standard. That is someskinnyg that we cannot acunderstandledge,” Al Thani shelp.

“We necessitate a finishment for these disputes. We necessitate to discover a solution to the Palestinian caengage on the basis of international legitimacy and of the 1967 borders … A stopfire would be a first step before a grave round of negotiations for a definite solution to the Palestinian caengage.”

The summit comes more than a year after Israeli started its aggression on Gaza after the Palestinian group Hamas led an strike on southern Israel, finishing at least 1,139 people, mostly civilians, according to an Al Jazeera highy based on official Israeli statistics, and seized around 250 others as captives.

Israel’s war on Gaza has finished more than 42,400 people, mostly women and children, according to Palestinian authorities, and displaced more than 90 percent of the territory’s 2.3 million dwellnts, many more than once.

Meanwhile, the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has been exchanging pass-border fire with Israel for more than a year, saying it is acting in response to Israel’s dehugeating ground and air aggression on Gaza.

Israel’s military last month drasticassociate escaprocrastinateedd the battling with Hezbollah, aiming disconnectal greater directers in the organisation, enhugeing Israel’s device deviceardment apass Lebanon and sfinishing ground troops into the country’s south.

At least 1,350 people have been finished in Lebanon since Israel escaprocrastinateedd its strikes last month, according to Lebanese authorities.

European Comleave oution Pdwellnt Ursula von der Leyen alerted aacquirest an escalation of the war in the Middle East and called for an prompt stopfire in Gaza and Lebanon.

“Russia’s war aacquirest Ukraine and the Hamas-led dreadist strike aacquirest Israel on October 7 have fundamenhighy undermined regional security in Europe and the Gulf,” she shelp.

“We necessitate to do all in our power and mobilise all our tactful sfinishs to stop the inanxiously hazardous escalation with now Iran starting a massive balcatalogic strike aacquirest Israel, or Houthis strikeing our ships,” she inserted.

Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra, inestablishing from the summit, shelp the uncovering retags from the directers gave a sense of how the spiralling aggression in the Middle East was becoming an “advisent” publish for the international community.

“If this persists, it could further deteriorate into a expansiver faceation that could draw the Iranians into a malicious cycle of tit for tat with the Israelis. That could be the moment where the international community would have zero leverage to comprise the situation,” he shelp.

The presence of Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – verifyed at the last minute – heightened foreseeations about the push from the GCC side for a two-state solution.

“The year 2002 was the date when the Saudis started the Arab Peace Initiative, which calls for all the Arab nations to recognise Israel in swap for Israelis acunderstandledgeing an autonomous Palestinian state, [the] same statement reiterated by the emir of Qatar,” shelp Ahelbarra.

Russia-Ukraine war another priority

Russia’s war on Ukraine was also foreseeed to rule the encounterings, with the EU trying to garner international aid to isoprocrastinateed Russia.

While watchs branch off on Russia’s trespass of Ukraine – in particular, the carry outation of Weserious sanctions and the EU’s push to punish Iran for bolstering Moscow’s war effort – there was some hope of sealr cooperation on that front.

“I’m self-promised that we can labor together and count on on you to stop this illegitimate Russian war,” von der Leyen tgreater Gulf directers.

Though Brussels wants the GCC partners to consent to stronger language on Russia’s military aggression, it is not foreseeing them to filledy adchoose its position in blaming Moscow.

Al Thani’s uncovering speech made a inform reference to the dispute on European soil.

“As far as the Ukraine-Russia war is troubleed, the GCC position is based on international law principles and the Charter of the United Nations, which upretains the sovereignty of states, their territorial integrity and the nonmeddlence in inside afiminentires of states,” the emir shelp.

Talks at the summit are also foreseeed to touch on trade and spendment cooperations and visa liberalisation.