Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he will work with his allies throughout the week to strengthen the response to terrorism around the world, following the Hamas attack on Israel.
“Many people were shocked by the brutality of the terrorist attack [contra Israel]. The courage and the preparation. (…) It means that they are not just a threat to one country,” Zelensky said in his address to the nation on Sunday evening.
The Ukrainian head of state said several events have already been planned and called the Hamas attack a new “front of terror against humanity.”
“The war against Ukraine, the war in the Middle East, the terrible destabilization in Africa, the continued attempts to provoke a crisis in the world food market” were other “fronts” cited by Zelensky.
The Ukrainian president also confirmed the death of two Ukrainian citizens in Israel in the “arbitrary killing committed by Hamas.”
Zelensky spoke on Sunday with the head of the Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu, to whom he expressed his support and spoke of the “implications for security in the region and beyond.”
The Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory on Saturday, dubbed Operation ‘Al-Aqsa Storm’, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen by land, sea and air.
In response to the surprise attack, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip from the air, in an operation it dubbed “Iron Swords”.
The attacks and military response left hundreds dead and more than a thousand injured.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel is “at war” with Hamas.
Iran celebrated as “a great victory” for Palestine the massacre of at least 700 civilians in Israel, on the day the largest number of Jews died since the Holocaust as a result of a single action.
On the day of the events, President Zelensky defended “Israel’s full right to defend itself against terrorism.”
Source: DN
