Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh received phone calls this Thursday evening from a number of senior international officials. During which he urged them to take urgent action to stop the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has claimed hundreds of martyrs and thousands of injuries, by bombing homes on the heads of their residents.

Shtayyeh received calls from the President of the Socialist International, Stefan Löfven, from the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Joseph Borrell, from the British Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, from the Swedish Foreign Minister, Anneken Hütten, and from the Churches in Sweden.

Shtayyeh presented international officials with a picture of the dangerous situation unfolding in the Gaza Strip. Amidst the interruption of the lifeline that threatens the residents of the Gaza Strip with an imminent humanitarian catastrophe.

Shtayyeh called on international officials to work urgently to stop the aggression, restore electricity and water to the Strip, and allow the entry of fuel, food, and medical supplies.

He called for work to evacuate the wounded who were overwhelmed by hospitals while the cemeteries were overflowing with martyrs, and to work to urgently provide hospitals with medical supplies and personnel to save the injured.