The State Duma unanimously adopted an Appeal to the UN and the parliaments of the world in connection with the mass death of children and the humanitarian catastrophe in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone, calling for an immediate end to hostilities and to stop the disproportionately brutal use of force.
According to UNICEF, in the first three weeks of the unprecedented outbreak of violence in Palestine and Israel, almost three thousand children were killed and more than five thousand minors were injured. The largest number of child deaths occurs in the Gaza Strip, which, according to eyewitnesses, has turned into a “portal to hell.” The blockade of the enclave increases the inhuman suffering of Palestinian children and their families, who are forced to survive without food, water, medicine, electricity, or fuel.
The Russian parliamentary corps calls for the united efforts of governments, parliaments, and civil society around the United Nations and the UN Security Council in order to save children throughout the Middle East region from murder and suffering.
