Arab Parliament condemns 'shameful international silence on Deir al-Ballah massacre'
CAIRO: Israel faced widespread condemnation on Sunday for its airstrikes on a school used by displaced Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday that killed at least 30 people, including several children.
The Arab parliament condemned “the brutal targeted attacks and atrocious massacres committed by Israeli forces against unarmed Palestinian civilians inside a field hospital housing thousands of migrants in the Gaza Strip city of Deir al-Balah.”
The Arab parliament also condemned “the shameful international silence on the crimes of the Israeli occupation authorities and their failure to suppress and hold accountable crimes against Palestinian civilians, children, women and the elderly.”
The report described the attack as a “cowardly act of terrorism, a shameful crime and a blatant violation of international law and international humanitarian law”.
The council called on the international community, particularly the UN Security Council, to pressure the Israeli “occupying entity” to stop its war of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and to provide international protection to Palestinian civilians.
The appeal calls on international, regional and European parliaments to pressure the government to take action in all international forums to defend the Palestinian people who are subjected to the most heinous crimes.
The international community must “hold the occupying powers accountable and bring them before the International Criminal Court to investigate the crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing committed against the Palestinian people,” it said.
