Ammon News - Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned Tuesday what it described as “the heinous crime” committed by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip, which led to the killing of 12 citizens, most of them children, women and unarmed civilians.

The Foreign Ministry considered in a statement this crime “an extension of the occupation's open war against our people and their just and legitimate national rights, and a continuation of the Israeli government's attempts to export its crises to the Palestinian arena and resolve them at the expense of the rights of our people, as well as a clear Israeli attempt to perpetuate the logic of brute military force in dealing with the cause of our people as an alternative for peaceful political solutions to the conflict.”

The ministry held the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for this aggression and its consequences, considering it “a dangerous escalation that threatens an overall explosion.”

It called on the international community to urgently intervene to stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, stressing that a negotiated political settlement to the conflict is the only way to achieve security and stability in the area.

WAFA