Ramallah: The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, instructed the country's envoy to the UN to ask for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to address the repercussions of Israel's attacks on the central Gaza Strip, according to media reports.
With the goal of addressing the "ongoing Israeli aggression" against the Palestinian people and forcing Israel to abide by the resolutions of international legitimacy, Abbas is actively pursuing diplomatic relations with Arab and international stakeholders to call the emergency session, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA said on Saturday.
He emphasised the urgent need for international intervention to halt the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank, adding that Israel continues to exploit "international silence and US support" to "perpetrate crimes," according to the report.
On Saturday, at least 210 Palestinians were killed and more than 400 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on central Gaza, Xinhua news agency reported.
Since its onset last October, the deadly conflict between Israel and Gaza-ruling Hamas has led to 36,801 Palestinians killed and 83,680 others injured in the strip, local health authorities said in an update earlier on Saturday.
With PTI inputs