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Gaza: Bloody battles
Gaza: Bloody battles
צילום: AP

Russia urges Israel, Palestinians to stop fighting

Moscow calls on Jeruslaem, Palestinians to end latest wave of violence, resume peace talks after four days of military strikes, rocket attacks

Russia called on Israel and the Palestinian territories to end the latest wave of violence to give a chance to peace talks.

  

At least 68 Palestinians have been killed in four days of  intense Israeli air strikes and raids in the tiny

Hamas-controlled Gaza strip, home to 1.5 million people straddling Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean.

  

Israel said it was responding to cross-border rockets which  killed an Israeli man in the border town of Sderot on Wednesday and wounded three others in the major southern city of Ashkelon.

  

"Moscow once again voices its categorical condemnation of  the rocket attacks on Israeli territory," Russia's Foreign  Ministry said in a statement. "They must stop immediately."

 

Moscow also said it could not accept that "Shells and bombs are falling on the heads of peaceful (Palestinian) women and children, under the pretext of fighting these acts of terror".

 

"Given the tough blockade of the Gaza Strip, the permanent  humanitarian catastrophe, such acts by Israel only give extra arguments to those not willing that Israel and a future  Palestinian state should live in peace and harmony," the statement said.

 

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