Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel’s deadly airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a Foreign Ministry statement said on Wednesday.
The kingdom denounced “the continued genocidal massacres that the Israeli occupation forces have committed without deterrence against the Palestinian people by continuing to target the tents of defenseless Palestinian refugees in Rafah.”
Riyadh held Israel fully responsible “for what is happening in Rafah and in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
It added that Israel’s violations of international and humanitarian resolutions “exacerbate the scale of the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe experienced by the Palestinian people.”
Palestinian medics said on Tuesday that dozens of people were killed in new Israeli attacks on Rafah, two days after 45 people were reported killed in an airstrike that drew international condemnation.
The latest attacks come in the wake of a ruling last week by the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to immediately end the Rafah operation. Israel has so far refused to obey the ruling.
Jordan also condemned “the Israeli occupation forces’ attacks on tents of displaced Palestinians in Rafah and their continued commission of terrible war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza,” a Foreign Ministry statement said late Tuesday.
