The Government of the Republic of Maldives condemns in the strongest of terms the Israeli forces’ bombing of Dar Al-Arqam School in Gaza, which was sheltering internally displaced persons, causing the deaths of dozens of civilians, including women and children and injuring many more.
The Government of Maldives also condemns the Israeli airstrike that targeted a medical warehouse operated by the Saudi Center for Culture and Heritage in the Morag area of Rafah, destroying essential medical supplies intended to aid those injured in Gaza, in flagrant violations of international law and international humanitarian law.
The Maldives calls on the international community to take urgent and decisive action to end the Israeli violence against the Palestinian people and to ensure humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip.
The Maldives reiterates its firm support for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the establishment of an independent and sovereign State of Palestine, based on the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
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