The foreign ministries of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have condemned Israel's strikes in Jabaliya in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, in which Hamas, in an unverified claim, said some 50 Palestinians were killed.
Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former intelligence chief of Saudi Arabia, while referring to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, referred to the historic Civil Disobedience Movement in India which brought down the British Empire as the 'preferred' option.
Riyad Mansour, Palestine's permanent observer to the United Nations, on Thursday said while the world body was holding a meeting, fellow Palestinians in Gaza were living in fear of bombs.
Israel's permanent ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said his country was not waging a war "with Palestinians" but with Hamas, adding that the terrorist organisation does not care about Palestinian people, peace or dialogue.
In remarks that especially outraged Israel, he had said it was important to "recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum" as the Palestinians have been "subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation."
Meanwhile in a press conference on the sidelines of Tuesday's United Nations Security Council's open debate on the situation in the Middle East, Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi emphasised that the lives of Palestinians are no less valuable than the lives of I
The two also affirmed the importance of working towards a sustainable peace between Israelis and Palestinians as soon as the crisis subsides, "building on" the work that was already underway between Saudi Arabia and the United States over recent months before the outbreak of the Gaza war.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Observer State of Palestine Riyad al-Maliki has said that over two million Palestinians are on a survival mission every day, every night and that Israel's massacre against the Palestinian civilian population must be stopped.
Both leaders underscored the need for concerted efforts to achieve an early resolution to the security and humanitarian challenges that have arisen as a result of the war.
US Embassy Cairo Charge d'Affaires, Ambassador Beth Jones, attended the Cairo Peace Summit on behalf of the United States saying that Palestinians are not Hamas, and the terror group does not represent the Palestinian people, according to a statement by the US State Department.