GCC strongly condemns Israeli Occupation's bombing of UNRWA school in Gaza

Riyadh: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has condemned, in the strongest terms, the bombing by the Israeli occupation forces of a school belonging t...

Riyadh: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has condemned, in the strongest terms, the bombing by the Israeli occupation forces of a school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The GCC Secretary-General Jassim Mohamed AlBudaiwi, said in a statement that the Israeli bombing, which targeted a school housing displaced people and left dozens killed and injured, "constitutes compelling evidence of the brutality of the Israeli occupation forces and their blatant disregard for international conventions, agreements and treaties."

The GCC Chief called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and put pressure on the Israeli occupation forces to stop their gross and dangerous violations against the Palestinian people, stressing the need to take strict measures against these heinous crimes that contradict the most basic principles of international and humanitarian law.

The statement reiterated the firm positions of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC) towards the Palestinian issue, as it is the central and first issue for Arabs and Muslims, and supported the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and international legitimacy resolutions.

Ambulance and civil defense teams in the Gaza Strip recovered the bodies of 35 Palestinian martyrs, after the occupation army committed a massacre yesterday (Thursday) at a school belonging to UNRWA, in which hundreds of displaced people in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip took refuge.