ALGIERS, (PIC)
Algeria has submitted a request for the holding of an urgent UN Security Council session next Tuesday to discuss the Israeli massacre that happened yesterday in al-Daraj neighborhood in the east of Gaza City.
The Algeria Press Service cited a diplomatic source in New York as saying that Algeria has requested the convening of this session in view of the recent grave developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially following the deadly Israeli attack on a school in Gaza.
The same source added that “this request was submitted in consultation with the State of Palestine,” affirming that Algeria’s request “has the support of other member states of the Security Council.”
More than 100 people were killed and dozens were wounded in an Israeli missile attack on a Gaza City school sheltering displaced families at dawn Saturday.
Meanwhile, the EU foreign policy chief said he was horrified by images of the Gaza school massacre that happened following an Israeli airstrike on Saturday.
“At least 10 schools were targeted in the last weeks. There is no justification for these massacres,” EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrell said, adding that a ceasefire is the only way to prevent further civilian deaths.
Borrell said the EU fully supports the call by leaders from the US, Egypt and Qatar to conclude a ceasefire and prisoner release deal.
He also noted that over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since the conflict began and criticized Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich for opposing a ceasefire.
For her part, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, condemned the world’s “indifference” to the mass bloodshed in Gaza.
“Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at a time, one school at a time, one refugee camp at a time, one ‘safe zone’ at a time — with US and European weapons,” Albanese posted on X on Saturday.
“May the Palestinians forgive us for our collective inability to protect them, honoring the most basic meaning of international law,” she said.
