Publish Date: 10 August 2024 - 16:28

TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) – Saudi Arabia has condemned the Israeli strike on a Gaza school sheltering displaced people that killed around 100 people on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry in a statement, called for an end to the “genocide” taking place in Gaza where Israeli violations of the international humanitarian law are bringing an “unprecedented humanitarian disaster.”

Saudi Arabia has also denounced the international community’s failure to hold Israel accountable for its violations.

Palestine’s official WAFA news agency said over 100 citizens were killed and dozens injured on Saturday morning after the Israeli forces bombed the al-Tabi’in school in the al-Daraj neighborhood east of Gaza City.

Citing local sources, the agency said the Israeli warplanes bombed the school while citizens were performing the dawn prayer.

“The Israeli strikes targeted the displaced people while performing Fajr (dawn) prayers, the matter led to a rapid increase in the number of casualties,” the government media office in Gaza said in a statement.

The media office stressed that the Israeli attack comes within the “framework of the crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing against our Palestinian people in a clear manner.”

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