Kurti calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire

In a post on the X platform, Kurti has stressed the urgency of the situation and the need for quick decision-making by the international community.

“I join Kamala Harris and other world leaders in calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of hostages and the increased humanitarian aid. The deaths and suffering of civilians in the months following Hamas' terrorist attacks are an urgent call for quick action, and the” verdict, Prime Minister Kurti wrote on the X platform.

US Vice President Kamala Harris called on Hamas the Palestinian group, declared terrorist organisations by the United States and the European Union, to reconcile for an immediate six-week ceasefire, meanwhile urged Israel to do more to increase aid shipments to Gaza.

According to US Vice President, innocent people in the Gaza Strip are experiencing a <x0 humanitarian disaster”.

US Vice President: There must be immediate truce in Gaza

The statements made on March 3rd are among the worst made by a senior U.S. government leader so far in terms of the war between Israel and Hamas, which began in October last year.

Harris asked the Israeli government to present specific ways in which more help can be sent to the Palestinian enclave, where hundreds of thousands are facing hunger.

Washington has insisted that a ceasefire enter into force in early Ramadan, beginning after a week.

Such a truce would last six weeks, following a shorter one-week ceasefire reached in November. Tens of hostages held by Hamas would be released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners found in Israeli prisons.

In the October 7th attack in southern Israel, ʹattack that sparked the war . Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 250 others hostage. Israel retaliated with an air and ground offensive that has so far left over 30,000 people killed in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas - led enclave.