JAKARTA - Indonesia and Russia agreed to promote peace in the Gaza Strip, with the two countries having close cooperation and having been going on for a long time in various fields, including Middle East issues.
This was achieved when the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia Muhammad Anis Matta held a bilateral meeting with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and the Special Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Africa, Mikhail Leonidovich Bogdanov, in Jakarta on Tuesday.
The two sides agreed to push for the resolution of the Palestinian and Israeli conflicts in Gaza and the ceasefire, as well as support the two-state solution as a just peaceful path.
"Cooperation between Indonesia and Russia has been going on for a long time in a number of fields and close cooperation is also regionally and globally, including in responding to Middle East issues," said Deputy Foreign Minister Anis Matta, launching a statement from the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tuesday, May 27.
Both noted that the conflict in Gaza had caused a humanitarian crisis, such as many civilians who were injured and injured, displaced, destroyed settlements and other infrastructure.
Apart from the Palestinian issue, the two parties also discussed other developments in the Middle East, such as the situation in Syria, bilateral cooperation, and cooperation within the framework of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OICS) and BRICS.
It is known that the latest conflict in Gaza broke out on October 7, after a Palestinian militant group led by Hamas attacked Israel's southern region, leaving 1,200 people dead and another 251 held hostage according to Israeli calculations.
On January 19, the two countries imposed a ceasefire agreement and exchanged hostages, following a deal reached days earlier between Hamas and Israel through Egyptian, Qatar and US intermediaries.
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Israel again carried out a total blockade of all aid on March 2, saying it was carried out to pressure the Hamas group to accept the ceasefire's proposal and release all hostages in the Gaza Strip.
Separately, medical sources in Gaza confirmed on Tuesday that the death toll from Palestinian attacks since October 2023 had risen to 54,056, while injuries reached 123,129, the majority of victims were women and children, as reported by WAFA.
According to the same source, the death toll since Israel restarted genocide on March 18 after a two-month ceasefire had also risen to 3,901, in addition to 11,088 others injured.
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