‘War crimes’: GCC denounces Israel’s deadly school strike
Kuwait, Oman and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have denounced the Israeli strike on a school in Gaza City that killed more than 100 people.
In a statement, GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi slammed the Israeli attacks as “war crimes”. Separately, Oman said targeting civilian infrastructure, like schools, is a “gross violation of international humanitarian law”. Kuwait said the international community and the UN Security Council “must assume their responsibilities to stop such heinous crimes against civilians”.
Iraq’s top Shia Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, urged an end to the “genocidal war” in Gaza. “Once again, the Israeli occupation army has committed a huge massacre, … adding to its series of ongoing crimes” in Gaza, Sistani said. “We once again call on the world to stand against this terrible brutality,” Sistani said, urging Muslims “to unite in order to press for an end to the genocidal war” in Gaza.
Arab Parliament, OIC slam deadly attack on Gaza school
The Arab Parliament has condemned the Israeli attack on al-Tabin school, which housed thousands of internally displaced people, describing it as a “terrorist and inhumane act”.
Separately, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) called the attack part of “the genocide committed by the occupation for more than ten months in the Gaza Strip, in flagrant violation of international law, the orders of the International Court of Justice and relevant UN Security Council resolutions”.
Algeria calls for urgent UNSC meeting on Israel’s school strike in Gaza
Algeria has requested an urgent and open UN Security Council meeting for Tuesday to discuss the Israeli attaks on al-Tabin school in Gaza City which killed more than 100 Palestinians, Algeria Press Service reported citing a diplomatic source.
The report added that the meeting was being called for “in light of the dangerous escalations in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially after the aerial attack launched by the Israeli occupation military on a school in Gaza”.
