Arab and Islamic countries have strongly criticised Israel’s bombing of the headquarters of the Qatar Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, The National reports.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt and Jordan — along with the Gulf Co-operation Council and Organisation of Islamic Co-operation — all issued statements of condemnation against the Israeli air strikes on the offices of the organisation, which has played a vital role in Gaza’s reconstruction for more than a decade, the report said.

Qatar’s foreign ministry denounced the Israeli bombing as “blatant aggression.”

Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry also condemned the “blatant aggression by the occupation forces on the Qatari committee’s headquarters” and expressed solidarity with Qatar.

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