The call was made through a Sunday post on the official account of the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on X social media platform.

At the beginning of his message, Riad al-Malki welcomed the New Year and "the 59th anniversary of the start of the Palestinian revolution."

"...the wounds of our people are bleeding due to #Israeli war machine's persistence in the war of #genocide, destruction, and #displacement," Malki said.

He added, "...killings, destruction, displacement, #starvation, the spread of epidemics, invasions, arrests, and torture, all of which are crimes of #ethnic_cleansing, [are] dominating the daily lives of Palestinian citizens."

"We reaffirm our demand at the beginning of this year for an immediate ceasefire," the top diplomat asserted.

Malki concluded his message by hoping for the upcoming year "to be the year when the Palestinian people obtain their fair and legitimate national rights to return, self-determination, and the embodiment of the Palestinian state on the ground" with East al-Quds as its capital.

The Israeli regime launched its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7 following an operation by the territory's resistance movements, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm. Close to 22,000 people, most of them women and children, have been killed in the regime's military campaign so far.

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