Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has said at a meeting with Russian religious leaders of different faiths that it was wrong that innocent women, children and old people in Gaza were being punished for other people’s crimes, reports Reuters.
“Our task today, our main task, is to stop the bloodshed and violence,” Putin said, according to a Kremlin transcript. “Otherwise, further escalation of the crisis is fraught with grave and extremely dangerous and destructive consequences. And not only for the Middle East region. It could spill over far beyond the borders of the Middle East.”