Putin expressed condolences for the “dead Palestinian Arabs”

Russian President Putin said at the BRICS summit that as a result of the “escalation” in the Gaza Strip, “more than 40 thousand people, mostly civilians, were killed.”

He also emphasized the need to launch a political process to resolve the Middle East problem and end the violence and provide assistance to the victims.

Putin repeated data that contradicts Israeli official data: of the approximately 18,000 deaths in Gaza, the majority are Hamas militants, the number of random civilian casualties is small.