SP politician Fabian Molina demands: Switzerland must demand a blue helmet deployment in Gaza

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The war in the Gaza Strip continues unabated: after Hamas’ terrorist attack on October 7, Israel launched a retaliatory offensive to destroy Hamas. A longer ceasefire or even a ceasefire is out of the question. “Without the release of the hostages, there will be no general ceasefire in the Gaza Strip,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (74) said in an interview on Tuesday.

Both Hamas terror and the Israeli military offensive have claimed thousands of lives and forced over a million people to flee their homes. Hamas is still holding at least 240 hostages.

SP foreign politician Fabian Molina (33) is now calling on Switzerland to make its own contribution to bringing peace to the region: the country must take the initiative in deploying UN peacekeepers. These troops are provided by UN member states for peacekeeping operations and are commanded by the United Nations.

Berset should discuss this in Paris

In fact, there is currently a UN mission in the Middle East commanded by the Swiss Philippe Gauchat: the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, founded in 1948, has been monitoring the ceasefire in the Middle East ever since. The mission is now expanding to Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

The UN Security Council, of which Switzerland is currently a member, decides on such blue helmet operations. “Switzerland should raise this in the UN Security Council,” Molina demands. “And Federal President Alain Berset could raise this this week at the Paris Peace Forum, where he will meet with about 20 heads of state and government.”

According to Molina, the peacekeepers must disarm Hamas, provide humanitarian aid and also support the International Criminal Court in The Hague (Netherlands) in the prosecution of crimes committed in Israel and the Gaza Strip. He is convinced: “In this way we can quickly put an end to the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip.”

A similar deployment of blue helmets has taken place in the past, as Molina says: “In the Yom Kippur War, a multinational force was sent to Egypt and the Gaza Strip to arrange the withdrawal of Israeli forces.”

Yet the peacekeepers who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988 are not entirely without controversy: the often poorly equipped troops were not always able to achieve peace, and were sometimes even indirectly responsible for massacres. The most prominent example is the massacre in Srebrenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in which more than 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were murdered by Serb forces in 1995. (sf)

Source:Blick