Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman called for the necessity of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, during his meeting on Tuesday with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the White House.

According to the Saudi News Agency (SPA), the Saudi minister also stressed “the necessity of protecting civilians, stopping forced displacement, and allowing humanitarian aid to enter without obstacles.”

He also stressed the need to "work to restore the path of peace, to ensure that the Palestinian people obtain their legitimate rights, and to establish their independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital, to ensure the achievement of a just and comprehensive peace."

On the 18th of this month, the Saudi city of Jeddah hosted an emergency meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, to discuss the war on Gaza launched by the Israeli occupation army in response to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation on the 7th of this October.

For 25 days, the occupation army has launched intensive raids on residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 8,306 people - including 3,457 children - and wounding about 21,048 Palestinians, according to official data.

In the West Bank, 122 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, and the Israeli army is launching a massive arrest campaign that has affected about two thousand Palestinians, according to official Palestinian sources.