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Saudi Arabia was outraged on Wednesday by the deathly Israeli bombing of the largest refugee camp in Gaza, which claimed the lives of numerous individuals, including a Hamas commander, according to Israel.
Israel claimed to have killed local battalion leader Ibrahim Biari on Tuesday by hitting a Hamas tunnel network beneath the heavily populated Jabalia camp. Israel claims Biari was involved in the militant group’s October 7 attacks.
At least 47 bodies were seen being removed from the area by AFP.
Saudi Arabia protested the “inhumane targeting” of the refugee camp “by the Israeli occupation forces” and condemned the strike “in the strongest terms possible”.
The incident “caused the death and injury of a large number of innocent civilians,” according to the Saudi Arabian foreign ministry.
The declaration is the most recent indication that efforts to restore normalcy in Saudi Arabian-Israeli relations have been shattered by the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The United States was on the verge of mediating an agreement that would have seen Saudi Arabia, the country that is home to the holiest places in Islam, recognize Israel for the first time before the Hamas strikes.
After decades in which Israel had extremely limited diplomatic, commercial, and security links with its neighbors, proponents of the accord think it might have completely changed the Middle East.
A source with knowledge of the process told AFP in October that Riyadh had decided to “pause discussion on possible normalization”.
Preceding Israel’s incursion into the Gaza Strip, Saudi Arabia had issued a warning.
A series of cross-border attacks into Israel by Hamas on October 7 are thought to have killed 1,400 people, many of them civilians living in Israel.
More than 8,500 people have died as a result of Israel’s retaliatory assaults, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, inflaming sentiment throughout the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia.
Source- Reuters
