On the second anniversary of the attacks on Israel by Palestinian militant group Hamas, Karin Keller-Sutter has called for peace. “It is high time to end the violence,” the Swiss president tweeted on Tuesday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Two years after the terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel, “our thoughts are with all those suffering”, she wrote. She called on Hamas to release the Israeli hostages. “The despair and immense pain must come to an end.” Peace is the only path forward, she wrote. Two years ago, on October 7, 2023, militants from Hamas, together with other Islamist groups, carried out the worst massacre in Israel's history. Around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were deported to the Gaza Strip. Israel responded with a military offensive. Palestinian health authorities say Israel's two-year-old ground and air campaign against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip has killed more than 67,000 people, with nearly a third of the ...
