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VOInews, Jakarta: Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi invited Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis to participate in efforts to stop violence in Palestine. According to her, this is needed to facilitate the entry of humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people.

"I invite Lithuania to participate in the call for an immediate halt to attacks on civilians, and to ensure safe and sustainable survival and unimpeded humanitarian assistance," she said in a statement delivered after a bilateral meeting with Gabrielius Landsbergis, in Jakarta, Monday (30/10/2023).

Retno said that in three weeks, more than 7,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, 68 percent of whom were women and children. According to her, these killings and hostilities must stop immediately.

"Are these numbers not enough to stop the killings, and initiate an immediate, durable, and sustainable humanitarian ceasefire, leading to a cessation of hostilities?," she said.

She also invited all parties to defend justice and humanity. "Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine must end based on internationally agreed parameters," she concluded.(Andy Romdoni)