OSLO, Oct 30 — Norway’s prime minister yesterday said that the Israeli army’s response to the deadly Hamas attack was disproportionate and denounced a “catastrophic”...
A picture taken from Israel’s southern city of Sderot shows a fire erupting following Israeli shelling of the northern Gaza Strip on October 29, 2023. — AFP picOSLO, Oct 30 — Norway’s prime minister yesterday said that the Israeli army’s response to the deadly Hamas attack was disproportionate and denounced a “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Hamas militants stormed across the Gaza border on October 7 in the deadliest attack in Israel’s history, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 230 others, according to Israeli officials. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says the retaliatory Israeli bombardment has killed more than 8,000 people, mainly civilians and half of them children.“International law stipulates that it must be proportionate. Civilians must be taken into account, and humanitarian law is very clear on this. I think this limit has been largely exceeded,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said on NRK public radio.
Norway on Friday voted in favour of a non-binding UN resolution calling for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities”.The resolution received 120 votes in favour, including from France and Spain, and 14 votes against, including the United States and Israel.“We are friends of Israel and we condemn the attack carried out by Hamas three weeks ago. We also call for the hostages to be released, but we must speak out,” Store said.
“The situation is catastrophic and I think that it clearly violates what we call the rules of war or humanitarian law,” he added. — AFP
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