RIYADH: The chief of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Jasem Al-Budaiwi, on Sunday “strongly” condemned a Zionist attack on a tent camp in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, which left scores of Palestinians either dead or injured. The incident is part of “systemic” Zionist violence and brutality, said a statement by the Riyadh-based bloc, lamenting these actions as grave violations of established international laws and principles while urging the international community to intervene and put an end to targeting innocent Palestinians. Gulf Arab states will continue to support Palestinian rights until their statehood aspirations come to fruition, based on 1967 border lines with East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state, it underlined.

UAE dispatches aid

Meanwhile, United Arab Emirates has urgently begun dispatching three tons of medical aid to Gaza to aid hospitals suffering from a shortage of medicines in the enclave. The UAE news agency, WAM, said on Sunday that the supplies include necessary medical items badly needed by the hospitals, including drugs for diabetics. The UAE is seeking, in coordination with international medical organizations and hospitals, to back up the health sector in Gaza, where scores of hospitals could no longer function due to the massive destruction inflicted by the occupation forces. Abu Dhabi had dispatched medical supplies, including 10 ambulance vehicles, to Gaza. So far, it has sent up to 337 tons of medical equipment and drugs to the war-battered enclave. — KUNA