Oman has called on the international community to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes in the Gaza Strip and take immediate action to stop the massacre of innocent civilian Palestinians.

Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al-Busaidi said in a statement on Tuesday that Muscat calls for “the prosecution of Israel for targeting civilians in Gaza.”

He said the international community needs to open an independent investigation into the regime’s killing of Palestinians, destroying civilian infrastructure and depriving people of their humanitarian needs in the besieged territory.

“In the end, truth must triumph and injustice must recede,” Sayyid Badr said.

“Genocide or collective punishment and targeting innocent civilians, and preventing humanitarian aid from reaching the population is a crime under international law,” Badr added.

Israel launched the war on the Palestinian territory on October 7. The regime has also cut off fuel, electricity, food and water to more than two million Palestinians living in the coastal territory. Israel has killed more than 8,500 Palestinians, mostly women and children, ever since.

The occupiers waged the war after they were caught off-guard by Operation Al-Aqsa Storm by the Palestinian resistance movements on October 7.

Palestinian envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour made a stark warning about the humanitarian situation in the besieged territory, saying, “Gaza is now hell on Earth.”

He said, “This is a war against our children and every five minutes a Palestinian child is killed in the Gaza Strip.”

The regime’s forces have “killed 3,500 Palestinian children in three weeks, and all the residents of Gaza have become displaced and refugees,” he said.

“They are still being killed wherever they go. There is no safe place in the Gaza Strip, and Gaza has become hell on earth.”

The Palestinian envoy called on member states of the UN to take immediate action to stop the war.

“Palestinians in Gaza face death every day and every night,” Mansour said. “Save them.“