Israel has turned Gaza Strip into ‘a prison under open sky’: Russia
MOSCOW – The Russian Foreign Ministry has slammed Israel’s actions against Palestine, saying Tel Aviv has turned the Gaza Strip into “a prison under open sky.”
Commenting on remarks by the Israeli foreign minister about the vote on the suspension of Russia’s membership on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) which Israel supported, the ministry said Israel uses the situation around Ukraine to deflect attention away from the Palestine problem.
“As well-known, in violation of numerous decisions of the (UN) Security Council and the UN General Assembly, the Israeli government continues illegal occupation and ‘creeping annexation’ of the Palestinian territories, as a result of which over 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank of the Jordan River live in isolated enclaves cut off from the outside world.
“The Gaza Strip has essentially become an ‘open-air prison,’ whose two million people have been forced to survive for almost 14 years under the conditions of the Israeli sea, air and land blockade,” it said.
The ministry noted that Israel’s maintenance of the longest occupation after World War II is being implemented with the approval and support of leading Western countries, primarily the US.
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