MUSCAT: The Sultanate has renewed its condemnation of the Israeli forces' storming the Al Aqsa Mosque and its rejection of the policies and actions for the displacement of the brotherly Palestinian people from their homes in the city of Jerusalem.
Oman has called on the international community to intervene immediately to force Israel to stop the brutal military attacks on Gaza, which resulted in the death of hundreds of innocent people and destruction of their homes.
The Sultanate participated in the meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's emergency meeting on Sunday via video conference to discuss the attacks carried out by Israel in the Palestinian territories.
The Sultanate was represented at the meeting by Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali al Harithy, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Diplomatic Affairs.
Speaking on the occasion, he expressed the Sultanate’s firm stance in support of legitimate rights to establish a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital.
GLOBAL ALARM
Meanwhile, Israeli strikes killed 42 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the worst daily death toll yet in the almost week-long clashes, as the UN Security Council met amid global alarm at the escalating conflict.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded for an immediate end to the deadly violence, warning that the fighting could plunge the region into an "uncontainable security and humanitarian crisis".
"Fighting must stop. It must stop immediately," Guterres said as he opened a Security Council session delayed by the United States, calling the violence over the past week "utterly appalling".
The heaviest fighting in years, sparked by unrest in Jerusalem, saw the rivals again trade heavy fire, with the death toll rising to 190 in the crowded coastal enclave of Gaza since last Monday and at 10 in Israel, according to authorities on either side.
In Gaza, the death toll kept rising as emergency teams worked to pull out bodies from vast piles of smoking rubble and toppled buildings, as relatives wailed in horror and grief.
Guterres earlier said he was also "deeply disturbed" by Israel's strike on Saturday on the tower housing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera bureaus, a spokesperson said.
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