Ruto holds phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza conflict
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President Ruto expresses concern over the Gaza situation in a phone call with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
President Ruto expresses concern over the Gaza situation in a phone call with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
President William Ruto on Thursday phoned Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and expressed concern over the situation in Gaza.
The President said in a statement on X that the circumstances in the besieged enclave and the increasing number of victims have reached intolerable proportions.
“I have had a telephone engagement with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel. I have expressed Kenya’s concerns over the deteriorating situation in Gaza where the loss of lives has reached unacceptable levels,” he said.
The President said he hopes Palestine and Israel will embrace peace to end further loss of lives.
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“I underscored Kenya’s belief in a two-state solution that would allow a peaceful side-by-side existence of the states of Israel and Palestine. I’m hopeful of an immediate end to the conflict in Gaza,” Ruto said.
Ruto nonetheless said that Kenya condemns all acts of terrorism even as it calls for cessation of hostilities between Israel and Palestine.
“Kenya abhors all forms of terrorism and it is our principled position that they must be eradicated.”
Israel launched retaliatory attacks on the Gaza Strip following Hamas’s surprise attack on Western Israel on October 7, last year.
Heavy bombardment and ground artillery fire on the enclave has until now claimed over 26,000 lives majority of whom are women and children.
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