2024-04-15 19:46:51
There can only be a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if there are “reasonable and humane” leaders around the table, which is not currently the case, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said in a statement. speech at a university in the Moroccan capital, Rabat. Mr De Croo was speaking about both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government.
Mr. De Croo is making a two-day visit to Morocco, with the aim of strengthening mutual relations between Belgium and the Maghreb country. Migration was the main item on the agenda, but the conflict in the Gaza Strip is never far away in the Arab world.
Belgium and Morocco also have similar points of view. The two countries “want the guns to be silenced, the civilians of Gaza to be protected and more humanitarian aid to be authorized,” summarized Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch after a meeting with the Belgian delegation. Mr. De Croo also insisted each time on the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
The question was also raised during a conversation with students from the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University of Rabat. “I only see one way to end the conflict,” Mr. De Croo said, “and that is around a table with reasonable and humane leaders.” “For the moment, these reasonable people are not at the table. »
Mr. De Croo then spoke both of the Palestinian administration under the presidency of Mahmoud Abbas, which only controls the West Bank, and of the Israeli war cabinet led by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and which does not appear, at the At present, press for a negotiated truce.
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