In a joint statement on Wednesday, foreign ministers of the G7 states – the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Canada, and Italy plus the High Representative of the European Union – fell short of calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, which has been violently bombarded by the Israeli regime for the past month.
The group’s top diplomats, instead, said that they supported “humanitarian pauses and corridors” during the ongoing war by Israel against Gaza, where acute shortages of food, water, and medicine threaten the lives of desperate Gazans and a few functioning hospitals are overwhelmed amid incessant Israeli bombings.
“We stress the need for urgent action to address the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Gaza … We support humanitarian pauses and corridors to facilitate urgently needed assistance, civilian movement, and the release of hostages,” said the joint statement of the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting that took place in Tokyo, Japan.
The so-called humanitarian pauses effectively allow the Israeli regime to strike whatever target it deems hostile regardless of possible civilian casualties.
The Israeli regime waged war on Gaza after the territory’s Resistance movements carried out a surprise attack against the occupying entity, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm, in response to unrelenting Israeli crimes against Palestinians.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, the death toll from indiscriminate Israeli bombardments has surpassed 10,500 people, including over 6,500 children and women.
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