CAIRO: Egypt said on Saturday that Israel’s “deliberate killing” of unarmed Palestinians shows that it lacks a political will to end the war in Gaza.
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry statement came after more than 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a Gaza school sheltering displaced people, according to the Palestinian news agency.
Turkiye denounced the “new crime against humanity” after Israel’s deadly strike on the school in Gaza, according to a Foreign Ministry statement.
“Israel has committed a new crime against humanity by massacring more than a hundred civilians who had taken refuge in a school,” the ministry said.
“This attack shows once again that the Netanyahu government wants to sabotage permanent ceasefire negotiations.
“The international actors who do not take measures to stop Israel are making themselves complicit in these crimes.”
A spokesperson for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, urged Washington to put an end to the “blind support that leads to the killing of thousands of innocent civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.”
Speaking to Al-Jazeera television, Khalil Al-Hayya, the head of the Hamas team for the indirect ceasefire talks with Israel, said statements of condemnation were no longer sufficient.
"Dismiss (Israeli) ambassadors, close down embassies, and sever ties with the occupation," he said.