Foreign Affairs

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, told the Council that fierce clashes have occurred in densely populated areas. The rockets fired by (Islamic resistance movement) Hamas are reaching about 30 kilometers from Tel Aviv, while Israeli troops entered the Gaza Strip. The protest by this fight has been heard by many countries, including the China that he today called Israel and Hamas a high immediate ceasefire and expressed his Government’s support for the proposal of Egypt, quoted by the Xinhua News Agency.A ceasefire is urgent, said Sun, Israel must stop operations in Gaza immediately and Hamas must stop the launching of missiles against Israel.Most importantly, be declared a high fire to alleviate the humanitarian crisis, said the Chinese official, who urged the international community to establish routes to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza as soon as possible, in particular food and medicines. United States has also requested a cease fire, where President Busch does not want to leave his mandate and not to see this situation resolved. The Government points out American, which is obvious the cease-fire should take place as soon as possible, but you need to be durable, sustainable and not limited in time, according to the spokesman of the State Department, are McCormack, a day once the U.S. President, George W. Bush, consider that the blame for the current situation is Hamas and claimed that this is the responsibility of promoting a high fire in the Islamic movement. The State Department ensures, in addition, in its statement that Washington It is deeply concerned by the humanitarian situation in Gaza, but he says that Hamas has to the people of Gaza hostage.

Spain urges the cessation of violence has called on the two parties to the conflict the cessation of armed activity to allow access of humanitarian aid to the area, as reported by a spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and cooperation. The Government has urged Israel to stop the military offensive and Hamas to cease the firing of rockets on israeli territory, has materialized this spokesman told EFE. It should be noted that Israel has formally rejected a French proposal to declare a 48-hour humanitarian truce in Gaza, hours after bombing the Office of the head of the Hamas Government, Ismail Haniye, in the Palestinian Strip. We consider very appropriate to indicate the national journal, that it is time that rationality can overcome fanaticism and, step by step, quell passions whose intensity has not only drowned so far the efforts in favour of a lasting peace, but also that has kept the parties always precarious hostage, whose continuity is for all dangerous and for many, Furthermore, absolutely unbearable. Original author and source of the article.