Gulf Council calls for int'l effort to stop brutal targeting of Gazans

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen Net & Agengies
14 Oct 2023 19:35

Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council stresses the necessity of immediate and urgent intervention from the international community to stop the ongoing brutal targeting of defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip.

Smoke and fire rise following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023 (AP Photo)

The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jassim al-Budaiwi, stressed that "the continued brutal targeting of defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip and the calls for the forced displacement of the Palestinian people from the Strip both require immediate and urgent intervention from the international community to stop them."

He pointed out the necessity of "a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and an end to all forms of military escalation against civilians, to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in the occupied Palestinian territories."

The statement stressed "the importance of collaboration of international efforts to stop the collective punishment approach adopted by the Israeli occupation forces, by depriving the residents of the Gaza Strip of basic living requirements, which is a flagrant violation of international and humanitarian law."

He stressed that these practices "represent a further aggravation of the situation in the Middle East region and a flagrant violation of international conventions and laws."

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Al-Budaiwi renewed his call to "the international community to intervene strongly and quickly to stop the aggression against the Gaza Strip, and to work to quickly find a political solution to the crisis to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their legitimate rights to establish their state on the lands of 1967, with East al-Quds as its capital, to achieve the desired peace and stability in the occupied Palestinian territories."

Earlier today, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has issued an urgent warning about the probable loss of lives of two million people inside Gaza, as a result of the siege imposed by the Israelis on the people and the suspension of energy.

In the meantime, the occupation aircraft continued to commit massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip and to bomb residential neighborhoods, where a group of martyrs and a number of wounded were recovered, in a new massacre in Deir Al-Balah as a result of the bombing of a residential square.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced the martyrdom of 2,215 Palestinians, including 724 children and 458 women, and the injury of 8,714 others, including 2,450 children and 1,536 women, since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Strip, last Saturday.