Israel-Hamas war: Putin backs Israel's self-defence, calls for 'independent' Palestinian state
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Israel's right to self-defence in the face of Hamas' attacks of “unprecedented brutality," and stressed the creation of an “independent Palestine state with East Jerusalem" as its capital. As reported by ANI citing TASS, “Russia proceeds from the postulate, a negotiated solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has no alternatives," said Putin while speaking at the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit here on Friday. Also Read:Israel-Hamas War LIVE Updates: Israel strike kills senior Hamas military commander Murad Abu Murad “The negotiations' goal should be the implementation of the United Nations' two-state formula, which implies the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, coexisting in peace and security with Israel, which, of course, as we have seen, has come under an attack of unprecedented brutality.
Of course, it has the right to defend itself. It has the right to ensure its peaceful existence," Putin said at the summit. He added that it is crucial to work to resolve this issue by peaceful means.
"The way I see it, in a situation like this and in this particular place, there is simply no alternative [to two independent states]," he concluded, according to TASS. Also Read: Israel-Hamas War Latest: Death toll rises to 3,200; Million Palestinians to be evacuated from Gaza strip. 10 updates As reported by Al Jazeera, following the issuance of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes, Putin's visit to Kyrgyzstan became his inaugural foreign trip.
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