Iraq welcomes the UNSC resolution for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

INA - BAGHDAD

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs - MOFA expressed on Monday, its welcome for the issuance of the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the holy month of Ramadan.

"We express our welcome to the issuance of the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the holy month of Ramadan, leading to a permanent ceasefire and the release of all hostages," said the ministry in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency - INA.
 
MOFA stressed "the importance of the parties complying with their obligations under international law and expanding the scope of the flow of humanitarian aid to civilians in the entire Gaza Strip and enhancing their protection," renewing its calls on the international community "to bear its responsibility to stop the Israeli occupation's attacks on civilians in the Gaza Strip and to emphasize the necessity of ending the suffering of the Palestinian people and enabling them to obtain the rights to live in safety."

Earlier, on Monday, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Eight of the ten non-permanent members of the Security Council (Algeria, Malta, Mozambique, Guyana, Slovenia, Sierra Leone, Switzerland and Ecuador) worked on a new draft resolution that was scheduled to be put to a vote on Saturday, but the vote on it was postponed until Monday in an effort to “avoid a new failure after the rejection of a US draft resolution on Friday.”

This project "urges an immediate humanitarian ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, leading to a permanent ceasefire," at a time when more than 32,000 Palestinians were martyred in the war in the Gaza Strip, the majority of them civilians," according to the Ministry of Health in the Strip.