Swiss foreign minister calls on Israel to authorise more aid to Gaza

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has called on Israel to allow more aid for the Gaza Strip. At the end of his lightning trip to the Middle East, the Swiss foreign minister considered the recognition of a Palestinian state to be premature, but said it would come. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “The Israelis have underestimated the task of providing humanitarian aid for two million people,” Cassis told the Keystone-SDA news agency on his flight back to Switzerland on Wednesday. His Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar admitted that the aid for the people in the Gaza Strip was not sufficient. In the past, the Israeli government has repeatedly accused the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, of interfering with aid deliveries and justified the blocking of deliveries on this basis. On October 7, 2023, the terrorist organisation Hamas attacked Israeli border villages from the Gaza Strip, causing a massacre with around 1,200 ...