Leaders of Non-Aligned Movement countries have denounced Israel’s military operations in Gaza and demanded an immediate ceasefire.
Their statement to this effect was issued at the annual summit of the 120-member bloc, Reuters reports.
Dozens of heads of state and other senior officials from the NAM, formed officially in 1961 by countries opposed to joining either of the two major Cold War-era military and political blocs, are attending a summit in Uganda.
Cuba’s vice president, Salvador Valdes Mesa, said in a speech to delegates: ‘Since October 7 we have witnessed one of the cruellest genocidal acts ever to be recorded by history.
‘How can the Western countries, who claim to be so civilised, justify the murder of women and children in Gaza, the indiscriminate bombings of hospitals and schools and deprivation of access to safe water and food?’
Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairperson of the African Union commission, called for an immediate end to what he called the ‘unjust war against the Palestinian people’.
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