RABAT, December 6. /TASS/. The UN Security Council must urgently intervene "to stop Israel’s comprehensive aggression against the people of Palestine," Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said.

"Israel is practicing organized terrorism against Palestinians wherever they are," Palestine’s WAFA news agency quoted the official as saying. "Under the conditions of unprecedented international silence, the UN Security Council must urgently intervene in order to stop Israel’s comprehensive aggression against the people of Palestine, the shedding of blood of the Palestinians," he stressed.

Rudeineh pinned the blame for the escalation in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on the US. He urged it to "put pressure on Israel’s occupation government so it stops its aggression and war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem."

"There is no other option for Israel and the US administration but to stop the aggression and end the occupation, because this aggression will not result in peace and security for anyone. Military solutions have proven their inadequacy. The only solution is to end the occupation and recognize the right of the Palestinian people to freedom and independence in accordance with international law," he concluded.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the Gaza-based Palestinian radical group Hamas staged a surprise incursion into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip. Hamas described its attack as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. In response, Israel has declared a state of war readiness; announced a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million Palestinians; and began delivering air strikes on the enclave and certain parts of Lebanon and Syria. The number of fatalities in Gaza since the onset of the escalation has surpassed 16,000 with the majority of them being women and children.