Muscat: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Sultanate of Oman’s condemnation and denunciation of the Israeli occupation forces’ targeting of the Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip, which led to the martyrdom and injury of hundreds of innocent civilians.
It stressed that the continued indiscriminate and brutal aggression by the Israeli occupation forces against the Gaza Strip and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories, targeting public facilities, killing civilians, and besieging them constitute war crimes and a flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law, and even a heinous aggression against humanity.
It called on the international community and the Security Council to put an immediate end to these inhumane practices against the Palestinian people, who only demand their rights approved by international legitimacy resolutions issued by the Security Council and calling for the Palestinians to regain their occupied lands and live in freedom and dignity within the two-state solution.
Jabalia camp
The Israeli strike on Gaza's largest refugee camp killed at least 47 people Tuesday.
A large explosion ripped through the densely packed Jabalia camp before nightfall, tearing facades off nearby buildings and leaving a deep, debris-littered crater. Wails filled the air as hundreds of bystanders and volunteers clawed at concrete blocks and twisted metal looking for survivors.
AFP witnessed at least 47 corpses being recovered.
Horrified resident Ragheb Aqal, 41, likened the explosion to "an earthquake" and spoke of seeing "homes buried under the rubble and body parts and martyrs and wounded in huge numbers". Israel said its warplanes had struck a "vast" tunnel complex at the site
Earlier, Bolivia had said it was severing diplomatic ties with Israel as a "repudiation and condemnation" of the Gaza offensive. And Qatar warned that expanded strikes would "undermine mediation and de-escalation efforts".
Saudi Arabia also criticized the strike, with its foreign ministry issuing a statement saying it condemned "in the strongest terms possible the inhumane targeting by the Israeli occupation forces of the Jabalia refugee camp". But there is little sign of the conflict abating.
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia condemns in the strongest terms possible the inhumane targeting by the Israeli occupation forces of the Jabalia refugee camp in the besieged Gaza Strip, which caused the death and injury of a large number of innocent civilians," the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement posted on X.
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