RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has condemned an Israeli strike that killed at least 10 Palestinians and injured at least 20 others at UNRWA school in Gaza hosting displaced families.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry in a statement on Sunday expressed the Kingdom’s strongest condemnation and denunciation of the continued systematic targeting by Israeli occupation forces of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), its facilities, and workers, the latest of which was the bombing of Abu Asi school in the Gaza Strip.
“The Ministry reiterates the Kingdom’s categorical rejection of the Israeli occupation’s continued targeting of civilians, relief, and humanitarian agencies amid the silence of the international community,” the statement said.
It said the Kingdom calls on the international community to assume its responsibilities towards the ongoing Israeli violations that increase the suffering endured by the Palestinian people and undermine the chances of achieving peace in the region.
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Gaza’s health ministry on Sunday said Israel’s war in Gaza has killed at least 43,846 Palestinians and wounded over 103,740.
Earlier, the Arab League had sought intervention of the US administration and the European Union (EU) to take action to prevent the implementation of the Israeli right-wing plan to completely undermine the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
UNRWA has provided basic aid, schooling and healthcare across the Palestinian Territories and to Palestinian refugees elsewhere for more than seven decades.
UNRWA and other humanitarian agencies have accused Israeli authorities of restricting aid flows into Gaza, where almost all of the territory’s 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once during the war.
