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MANILA, Philippines -- Congress has joined international calls to end the war between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza, which has killed close to a thousand people and displaced thousands more.
Speaker Prospero Nograles filed House Resolution 926 urging both sides to abide by the United Nations Resolution 1860 calling for ceasefire in Gaza.
"We have to join and support the international effort to end this war," Nograles said in a statement. He said that the ongoing war was "just making worse the current global economic crisis."
A total of 91 Filipinos remain in Israel.
On Jan. 8, 2009, the UN Security Council approved Resolution 1860 calling for an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli troops. It calls on members states "to support international efforts to alleviate the humanitarian and economic situation in Gaza," and condemns all violence and hostilities directed against civilians and all terrorist act.
Among others, UN Resolution 1860 "calls for renewed and urgent efforts by the parties and the international community to achieve a comprehensive peace based on the vision of a region where two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace with secure and recognized borders, as envisaged in Security Council Resolution 1850 [2008], and recalls also the importance of the Arab Peace Initiative."
