RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday roundly condemned a deadly Israeli bombing of Gaza's largest refugee camp that killed dozens of people.
Saudi Arabia denounced the strike "in the strongest terms possible", decrying the "inhumane targeting" of the refugee camp "by the Israeli occupation forces".
The attack, Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry said, had "caused the death and injury of a large number of innocent civilians".
Saudi Arabia had previously warned Israel against any further ground operations in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Internet and phone networks were down across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in the second such blackout in the besieged territory in less than a week.
"To our good people in the beloved country, we are sorry to announce that communications and Internet services have been completely cut off in Gaza," the Palestine Telecommunications Company (Paltel) said on X.
Global network monitor Netblocks confirmed that Gaza "is in the midst of a new Internet blackout with high impact to the last remaining major operator, Paltel.
"The incident will be experienced as a total loss of telecommunications by most residents," it said in a post on X.
Internet and phone networks were completely cut last week but were restored at the weekend.
The Palestinian government had at the time accused Israel of causing the shutdown in order to "perpetrate massacres" in the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Israel has hit with a relentless air and artillery bombardment, which the health ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza says has now killed more than 8,500 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women or children. — AFP
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