Speaking virtually at the Doha Forum on Sunday, Sergey Lavrov told Al Jazeera's diplomatic editor James Bays the unprecedented attack by Hamas inside the Israeli territory did not happen in a vacuum. It was due to decades and decades of a blockade [in Gaza] and decades and decades of unfulfilled promises to the Palestinians that they would have a state, living side to side with Israel in security and good neighbourliness, he said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called Israel's offensive in Gaza a failure of US diplomacy and suggested that Moscow could be a mediator in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Moscow has also condemned this week's US veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.
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