Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Mauro Vieira has interrupted an Asia trip to travel ‘to New York to participate in a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, called by Brazil… to address the situation in the Gaza Strip,’ the Ministry said in a statement.
Earlier on Wednesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for urgent international action to protect both Palestinian and Israeli civilians, especially children.
“Children must never be held hostage, anywhere in the world,” Lula wrote on social media platform X.
“Hamas needs to free the Israeli children who were kidnapped from their families. Israel .. As Israel pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, a densely populated enclave of 2.3 million people, in response, the death toll there has also reached 1,200 people, including a high number of civilians, according to Palestinian authorities.
