Ahmed Attaf, the foreign minister of Algeria, urged the international community on Tuesday to aid the Palestinians, with whom Algeria, he said, stands in complete solidarity as the Israel-Hamas conflict heats up.
Attaf added, “Our brothers in the Gaza Strip are living in appalling humanitarian conditions,” at the 20th session of the ministerial meeting of African and Nordic nations in Algiers.
Algeria “calls on the international community to take prompt action to come to the help of the downtrodden and persecuted, to put an end to this assault, and to relaunch the peace process,” the speaker declared.
The meeting of African and Nordic ministers is taking place from October 16 to 18, under the theme of “strengthening dialogue based on common values”.
Key topics being discussed are irregular migration, climate change, cross-border terrorism and developing trade and economic cooperation between the two blocs.
The conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas has triggered a wave of pro-Palestinian solidarity across North African countries, with demonstrations in Algeria, Libya and Morocco.
On Monday, Algeria’s Supreme Security Council issued a statement stressing “its rejection of the occupation operations against defenceless civilians” and emphasised its solidarity with the Palestinian people.
They added their conviction that”the radical solution does not lie in genocide or forced displacement, but rather in establishing the Palestinian state.”
