The United Nations chief Antonio Guterres repeated the appeal while speaking to reporters in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, ahead of the G20 summit which starts on Monday, reports Al Jazeera.
Previously, pro-Palestinian protesters took the streets and demanded to cut relation with Israel.
Guterres said, “On the Middle East, I do believe that we cannot have double standards. We need to apply the same principles everywhere. We need to apply the [UN] Charter, international law and international humanitarian law.”
“We need peace, but we need peace on the way to a two-state solution. We need peace that guarantees the right of the Palestinian people as the right of the Israeli people, to have a state, and for the two states to live in peace and security,” he added.
“And at the same time, we need to address the immediate crises. Condemning, as we have condemned, the Hamas attacks, but recognising that they do not justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people. So, we need immediately, a ceasefire, the immediate release of the hostages and effective humanitarian aid to Gaza,” the UN chief furthered.
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