RIYADH: The Saudi foreign ministry has condemned ‘in strongest terms’ the Israeli targeting of a UN school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza, which resulted in the death of least 34 people including UN personnel.
Airstrikes hit the UN’s Al-Jawni Preparatory Boys School in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, with the Israeli military claiming it was targeting Hamas militants planning attacks from inside the school.
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“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s condemnation and denunciation in the strongest terms of the Israeli occupation forces’ targeting of a school housing displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the deaths of a number of people, including employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East,” the foreign ministry said in a statement posted on X on Thursday.
The ministry also reiterated the Kingdom’s rejection of the continuation of Israel’s genocidal crimes in the Palestinian Territories and Gaza, as well as calls for an immediate ceasefire and the protection for civilians in the besieged territory.
