“As it relates to our support for Ukraine, we must be unwavering and we cannot play political games,” she said. The Gaza war began with Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack which resulted in the deaths of about 1,160 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures. Israel’s retaliatory assault on Gaza has killed at least 28,858 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry. The foreign ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia also underlined in Munich the catastrophic situation facing civilians in Gaza. “That is why moving on with Saudi Arabia will clearly be a victory over what Hamas did,” he added.
