RAMALLAH, Palestine

Palestine appealed for urgent international intervention on Tuesday to halt Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army pounded the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing more than 320 people and injuring hundreds, despite a ceasefire agreement.

Images emerging from Gaza showed that the majority of the victims were civilians, including women and children, whose homes were bombed during the night.

A Palestinian Foreign Ministry statement called the Israeli assaults on civilians in the enclave “a disruption of international efforts for Gaza's reconstruction and an Israeli evasion of the ceasefire obligations.”

"Political solutions are the key to achieving calm, stopping the aggression, and restoring the political horizon for resolving the conflict," it added.

"We call for a firm international stance to enforce an immediate cessation of aggression and warn against the occupation's attempts to implement its plans to displace our people," the ministry said.

More than 48,500 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and over 112,000 others injured in a brutal Israeli military campaign in Gaza since October 2023.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants in November last year for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.