MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Monday it was waiting for more details on USpresident Donald Trump’s plan to buy the Gaza Strip, an idea which has sparked condemnation from many countries.
Trump said on Sunday he was committed to buying and owning Gaza, but could allow sections of the war-ravaged land to be rebuilt by other states in the Middle East.
Asked whether Trump’s plan was acceptable for Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that 1.2 million people lived in Gaza.
“It’s worth waiting for some details here if we’re talking about a coherent plan of action. We are talking about almost 1.2 million Palestinians who live there, and this is probably the main issue,” Peskov told a conference call.
“These are the people who were promised a two-state solution to the Middle East problem by the relevant Security Council resolutions, and so on and so forth. There are a lot of questions like that. We don’t know the details yet,
so we have to be patient,” said Peskov.
Kremlin, asked if Trump’s Gaza plan is acceptable, says it is waiting for more details
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Kremlin, asked if Trump’s Gaza plan is acceptable, says it is waiting for more details
- Asked whether Trump’s plan was acceptable for Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that 1.2 million people lived in Gaza
Austria avalanches kill two: police
- A 21-year-old Slovak was skiing off-piste “without avalanche safety equipment“
- A 41-year-old Austrian was “swept away by the avalanche and completely buried“
VIENNA: Two people were killed in avalanches in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, bringing to seven the number of people killed in the country since Friday after heavy snowfall.
A 21-year-old Slovak was skiing off-piste “without avalanche safety equipment” when a “slab of snow broke off above him,” and killed him instantly, police in Styria province said.
Elsewhere in the Tyrol region, a 41-year-old Austrian was “swept away by the avalanche and completely buried,” regional police said on their website. The man later died in hospital after being rescued.
Experts had urged skiers to avoid off-piste slopes after five people — four in Tyrol and one in Vorarlberg — were killed Friday in avalanches triggered by a major snowstorm.
Twenty-four people have been killed this winter season in avalanches in Austria, a country popular for winter sports, according to an updated toll released Saturday.
Up to 40 centimeters (16 inches) of snow fell on the Alpine nation since Thursday, causing power outages and transport chaos.
A man was also crushed to death Friday by a snow plow that fell down a flight of stairs.
