Lerato Mbiza
President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the international community to shift its focus towards reviving the Israel-Palestine peace talks saying more energy and focus should be directed at bringing the warring factions to the negotiating table.
Ramaphosa was speaking during the Cairo Peace Summit in Egypt on Sunday, convened to deal with the crisis that is unfolding in Gaza where thousands of people have died and millions displaced since the 7 October attack by Hamas and subsequent retaliatory strikes by the Israeli Defence Force.
Rather than work towards a peaceful solution, the United States of America and the UK are some of the big countries that have sent military support to Israel over the past two weeks.
Ramaphosa decried the escalation of the conflict by those arming either of the warring parties and called on state actors to immediately stop the provision of weapons as it undermines the promise
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