Egypt condemned in the strongest terms Israel’s airstrike Tuesday on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp that left hundreds of Palestinians dead or injured as a “flagrant violation of international law,” according to a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Egypt urged an immediate stop to these attacks, calling on all international parties to express their condemnation “categorically without ambiguity.”
The ministry said the attack further complicates the current crisis and portends dire and hardly avoidable consequences.
“Egypt has warned of the consequences of such indiscriminate attacks that target civilians at shelters, medical centres and hospitals in which they are seeking refuge from Israeli bombardment,” the statement noted.
“Egypt warned of the consequences of the continuation of these indiscriminate attacks targeting defenseless civilians in their places of shelter and in the vicinity of the medical centers and hospitals to which they seek refuge to escape the violent and continuous Israeli bombing, without any regard for the lives being lost and in a way that exacerbates the crisis and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip,” it was stated in the press release.
Egypt called on all countries and international parties to unequivocally condemn these attacks and immediately stop them, and for the international community to assume its responsibility to provide the necessary protection for Palestinian civilians, stressing the need for all international efforts to join forces to ensure safe, complete and sustainable access to humanitarian and relief aid, to alleviate the burden of the humanitarian plight that is affecting them.
The Israeli airstrike targeted residential buildings in the Jabalia camp, located in the north of the strip, with six 2,000 lb bombs, killing or injuring around 400 people, according to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA).
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