Saudi Arabia exhorts world community to contain Israel

October 13, 2015

Riyadh, Oct 13: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, during Monday’s Cabinet meeting, urged the international community, including the United Nations to take action against Israel, to ensure it stops its violations against the Palestinian people, and ensure their rights are recognized.

The Cabinet valued the decision taken by the extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation foreign ministers, which was held in New York, in response to Saudi Arabia’s call, which confirmed Palestinian sovereignty over east Al-Quds, and condemnation of Israel.

The Cabinet welcomed the political agreement reached between representatives of the Libyan parties in Sukhairat city, Morocco on the formation of a national unity government, which was announced by Bernardino Leon, the special envoy of the United Nations secretary general to Libya.

The Cabinet condemned the bombing in the capital of Turkey that led to many casualties, and said it stood by Ankara in its fight against terrorism.

The Cabinet also decided to include students with special needs in the private sector, with health and physical disabilities, to get certain financial rewards.

On the 85th National Day, the Cabinet underscored the security, stability and economic prosperity enjoyed by citizens.

All Muslims joined in this celebration because this was the country serving Islam, said Al-Toraifi.

The Cabinet was also briefed on the results of the visit to Russia by Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, second deputy premier and minister of defense and his meeting with President Vladimir Putin.

The Cabinet denounced the continuous violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque, Al-Quds and the West Bank, and the attacks on the Palestinian people by the Israeli occupation authorities and settlers, said Al-Toraifi.

In addition, it approved a memorandum of understanding on housing with the Russian Federation, signed in the city of Saint Petersburg earlier this year.

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Israel orders 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate eastern Rafah ahead of ground invasion

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May 6,2024

The Israeli regime is forcibly evacuating Palestinians from the eastern part of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip amid the prospect of its widely-discouraged ground invasion.

“The estimate is around 100,000 people,” an Israeli military spokesman told journalists on Monday when asked how many people were being evacuated.

International organizations, including the United Nations, have repeatedly warned the regime against invading the city, citing its hosting around 1.5 million Palestinian refugees.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a ground assault on Rafah would “put the final nail in the coffin” for humanitarian aid operations in the Gaza Strip.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs also said, “Any ground operation would mean more suffering and death,” with an official saying “It could be a slaughter of civilians.”

Multiple aid agencies, including the Norwegian Refugee Council, have likewise warned against a Rafah offensive.

The NRC said such an invasion “would profoundly exacerbate the already catastrophic levels of need and the humanitarian emergency for millions of civilians with nowhere left to go.”

The official alleged Hamas had killed three Israeli forces on Sunday, attacking them from Rafah.

The evacuation order came a sat least 22 people lost their lives in the regime’s airstrikes killed in Rafah earlier on Monday.

Rafah’s evacuation “is part of our plans to dismantle Hamas,” the Israeli spokesman added, referring to the Palestinian resistance movement that has been defending Gaza in the face of the war.

The Palestinians have fled there from the ravages of a war that the regime began waging against Gaza on October 7, following a retaliatory operation by the coastal sliver’s resistance groups.

At least 34,683 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed and 78,018 others injured so far during the brutal military onslaught.

On Friday, Hossam Badran, a member of Hamas’ Political Bureau, said Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence on carrying out a ground invasion of Rafah was a key stumbling block in negotiations aimed at a truce agreement.

The Israeli premier has said the regime would go ahead with invading the city “with or without” a truce.

Hamas has, however, asserted that the regime has failed to defeat the resistance during the war.

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