(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that a strike on a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians was a terrible catastrophe that showed the conflict should be ended.
“As for the strike on the hospital, the tragedy that happened there is a terrible event,” Putin said after talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. “Hundreds of dead and hundreds of wounded are of course a catastrophe.”
“I really hope this will be a signal that we need to end this conflict as soon as possible. In any case, we need to focus on the possibility of starting some contacts and negotiations.”
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge and Darya Korsunskaya; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
