International anger at Israeli attack
The death of 18 Palestinians, including eight children, during an Israeli attack in Beit Hanoun has provoked condemnation from around the world.
The special UN envoy for the Middle East, Alvaro de Soto, said he was “deeply shocked and appalled” by the shelling of civilian homes by Israeli forces.
In Cairo, the Arab League denounced the Palestinian deaths as a massacre and called an emergency meeting of foreign ministers from its 22 member nations.
Amr Moussa, the organisation’s secretary general, said: “These massacres of children, women and civilians are unjustified and incomprehensible and unexpected.
“Israeli policies in the Palestinian territories have gone too far.”
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, called Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister, to condemn the attack.
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