MOSCOW: US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan is the “best thing to end bloodshed” and allow humanitarian aid and relief to enter Gaza, but lasting peace is doubtful without Palestinian statehood, Russia’s foreign minister told a press conference on Monday. “We welcome the prospect, but we have a certain amount of skepticism,” Sergei Lavrov said, adding: “I have no clue how they (Gazans) will be able to live there right now.” According to estimates, more than 80 percent of Gaza has been reduced to rubble in the two-year Israeli onslaught.

RIYADH: For two years, the world has watched Gaza burn. Tens of thousands have been killed, and yet amid the rubble, talk of peace has returned in the form of a new US-led plan…

Sergey Lavrov still pointed to the statements both from Hamas and from Tel Aviv that nothing is over yet and the crisis may resume

Russia expects that all agreements on the Gaza Strip, reached during the summit in Egypt, will be fulfilled

MOSCOW: US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan is the “best thing to end bloodshed” and allow humanitarian aid and relief to enter Gaza, but lasting peace is doubtful without…