Doha, May 16 (Sputnik) – About 10,000 residents of the Gaza Strip had to leave their homes because of the Israeli airstrikes, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said today.
“More than 10,000 people in the Gaza Strip were forced to leave their homes as a result of barbaric bombings, hundreds of buildings were destroyed,” al-Maliki stated at an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at the level of foreign ministers.
The Palestinian diplomat accused Israel of “pursuing an apartheid policy towards the Palestinians” and called for the creation of an “international front” that would confront Israel’s “aggression against the Palestinian people.”
The meeting was initiated by Saudi Arabia in a video-conference format as Israeli-Palestinian armed hostilities have not ceased for already one week.(UNI)