The above, took place right after the BRICS emergency summit on Gaza and Israel, interesting timing.
The bloc made this request in a statement issued at the end of its summit to analyze the Gaza crisis, convened by the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, whose country chairs the Brics this year.
"The contribution of the Brics, in its new configuration, together with all the actors in favor of self-control and de-escalation, is valuable and essential," said the Brazilian president.
The countries of the Brics group, including some of those that joined after its recent expansion, called this Tuesday to end Israel's aggression in the Gaza Strip, which is now a month and a half old.
The bloc made this request in a statement issued at the end of its summit to analyze the Gaza crisis, convened by the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, whose country chairs the Brics this year.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, host of the meeting, called for an "immediate and complete ceasefire" in the Israeli occupation army's siege on Gaza. "Israel's actions clearly violate international law, including the United Nations Charter and the Geneva Convention," he said.
The South African leader noted that "the collective punishment of Palestinian civilians through the illegal use of force by Israel is a war crime. The deliberate denial of medicine, fuel, food and water to Gaza residents amounts to genocide ", he claimed.
For his part, the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisí, asked that Israel be declared a terrorist regime and that a binding resolution be adopted at the UN against the Jewish State for the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
"The continued attacks by the Zionist regime against hospitals and medical centers, and religious places, the murder of women, children, doctors, nurses are all terrorist acts," Raisí said.
"It is necessary to declare this false regime as a terrorist regime and its Army as a terrorist organization," added the Iranian president.
In turn, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, called for a "diplomatic solution" to Israel's escalation against the Gaza Strip: "Russia's position on the situation in Gaza is coherent and not opportunistic. Moscow insists on a solution diplomacy of the problem".
During his speech, the Russian president also blamed the United States for "monopolizing peace efforts in the Middle East", blocking positive interventions from other actors.
In another intervention, the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, called for action to prevent the Zionist escalation from spreading to other countries, "we must act to prevent the war from spreading to neighboring countries."
"The contribution of the Brics, in its new configuration, together with all the actors in favor of self-control and de-escalation, is valuable and essential," said Lula. The South American president stressed that "Brazil does not believe that peace is achieved only by force of arms."
Finally, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for an end to Israel's "collective punishment" against the Gaza Strip, including forced displacement and deprivation of water and electricity, "collective punishment of the population in large numbers must cease." of forced displacement and the deprivation of water, electricity and fuel.
According to Xi, "China believes that the conflict must end to prevent the deaths of more people," while also calling for the opening of humanitarian aid corridors in Gaza.
"The international community must act with practical measures to prevent the conflict from spreading and endangering the stability of the region," he said.
In this way, Putin indicated that the "efforts of the United Nations to guarantee the peaceful coexistence of the two States, Israel and Palestine, have been "sabotaged", which is why more than one generation of Palestinians has grown up in an atmosphere of injustice".