Sudan calls for Israel's commitment to UN resolutions

The Sudanese Foreign Ministry on Sunday called for Israel's commitment to UN resolutions, stressing that a comprehensive, just and lasting peace could not be achieved in the Middle East region without an Israeli commitment to relevant UN resolutions and decisions.

In a statement, the ministry also urged the Jewish state to pull out from all occupied Arab territories and allow the Palestinian people to establish an independent state with the holy city of Jerusalem as its capital.

"The international community is demanded more than any time before to lead an immediate intervention to stop the unjustified Israeli aggressions against the Palestinian civilians," the statement said.

It condemned the current Israeli aggression on the Palestinian lands, saying that the aggression "represented a flagrant challenge to the will of the international body".

The statement said that the international community should exercise pressure on Israel so that the Jewish state would listen to the voice of wisdom and stop its aggression against the Gaza Strip immediately.

Israel must release all the Palestinians civilians and parliamentarians it detained while at the same time respect the choice of the Palestinian people, it added.

"Through its savage aggression, Israel has once again proved that it has maintained it's policy of invasion unworried with any humanitarian value or international rules and principles," the statement denounced.

It said that the Jewish state "has made use of the policy of double standards that compensate the invaders and the aggressors while incriminating the victims and the oppressed".

Last Wednesday, Israeli troops crossed the border and entered the southern Gaza Strip in their first major ground offensive in Gaza since Israel withdrew troops and settlers from the coastal strip last summer after 38 years of occupation.

The operation took place after Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured on June 25 by militants affiliated with the armed wing of Palestinian ruling Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), who tunneled under the border and attacked an Israeli military post.

Source: Xinhua