24 January 2024
Algeria has called for holding an international peace conference under the auspices of the United Nations to end the decades-long Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, reports Anadolu Agency.
“What’s happening in Gaza today brings back to the forefront more than ever the need to speed up efforts to address the essence of the conflict by renewing and activating our collective commitment to the two-state solution for a just, lasting, and final solution,” Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf told a meeting of the UN Security Council member-states in New York.
He called on the UN “to firmly respond” to Israeli voices rejecting the two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he told the US that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of any post-war scenario.
The Israeli prime minister pledged to continue a military campaign in the Gaza Strip until Israel achieves a decisive victory against Hamas, something many analysts have said is “impossible.”
US-sponsored peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel collapsed in 2014 over Tel Aviv’s ongoing settlement building in the occupied West Bank.
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