RIYADH: The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed the Kingdom’s strongest condemnation and denunciation of Israeli occupation forces targeting a school that was hosting displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of several people, including employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia stressed the need for an immediate ceasefire, protection of unarmed civilians, and an end to the unprecedented humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli violations of international laws and norms.
The Kingdom reaffirmed its complete rejection of targeting relief facilities, organizations, and their workers, stressing the responsibility of the global community to activate mechanisms of international accountability and put an end to these ongoing Israeli violations of international and humanitarian laws.
According to the SPA, Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Jasem Albudaiwi has also condemned the Israeli occupation forces’ bombing of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) school in Al Nuseirat camp.
In a statement, Albudaiwi emphasized the urgent need for the international community to take a firm position against the Israeli occupation forces to stop the continuous and systematic violations against the Palestinian people that have resulted in the tragic loss of tens of thousands of innocent civilian lives.
He added that the deliberate targeting of relief and UN staff represents yet another heinous crime added to the long list of repeated war crimes committed by the occupation forces in Gaza.
He urged the global community to take action to address the unlawful practices of the Israeli government and its policy of collective punishment imposed on the besieged residents of Gaza and the entire Palestinian population.
