DOHA: Qatar has strongly condemned the Israeli occupation's bombing of a school sheltering displaced people east of Gaza city, which led to dozens of deaths and injuries, and deemed it a horrific massacre and brutal crime against defenceless civilians and a flagrant infringement of the fundamental precepts of international humanitarian law and UN Security Council resolution 2601.
In a statement on Saturday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated Qatar's call for conducting an urgent international investigation by dispatching independent UN investigators to probe the ongoing targeting by Israeli occupation forces of schools and shelters for displaced people, calling on the international community to provide full protection for the displaced people and prevent the occupation forces from carrying out schemes aimed at forcibly expelling them from the Strip, in addition to compelling the occupation to abide by international laws.
The ministry underscored Qatar's firm position on the justice of the Palestinian cause, and the legitimate rights of the fraternal Palestinian people to establish their independent state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
