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- The plane arrived at El Arish International Airport on Wednesday
RIYADH: The 60th Saudi relief plane carrying much-needed humanitarian assistance to starving, war-weary Gazans arrived in Egypt, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday.
The plane arrived at El Arish International Airport on Wednesday.
The plane was carrying food for Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel is undertaking a campaign to displace the inhabitants of the enclave through military force and starvation.
Many activists, humanitarians and experts are now calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide.
The shipment was coordinated by the Saudi ministry of defense and the Kingdom’s mission in Egypt.
Palestinian health authorities said more than 62,000 people, mostly civilians, have died in the Israeli retaliation for the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on settlements close to the border with the Gaza Strip, which killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians.
US President Donald Trump met advisers in the White House on Wednesday to discuss a postwar future for the territory. US media reported that a top Israeli official was present at the meeting.
Ƶ and Italy on Thursday “unequivocally rejected” the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, as Israel ramped up its bombardment of Gaza City.
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on his government to start annexing parts of the Gaza Strip if Hamas refused to disarm.
He suggested that Israel should take a section of territory each week for a month until the Strip was under complete Israeli control.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan also condemned Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank and said the Kingdom agreed with Italy on the urgent need to halt the war in Gaza.