They emphasised the urgent need for imposing sanctions on Israel at the meeting chaired by Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan.

The UK on Thursday joined the United States and Canada in announcing a fresh set of sanctions against Iran’s drone and missile industries after its recent attack on Israel.

“I thank the US Senate for passing the Israel aid package tonight with an overwhelming bipartisan majority.”

President Joe Biden and Democratic lawmakers in Congress have been pushing for a major new weapons package for Ukraine for months.

“Military attacks may result in airspace closures, flight cancellations and diversions and other travel disruptions.”

Oil prices surged more than three percent in early Asian trade on Friday following unconfirmed reports of explosions in Iran, Syria and Iraq, sparking fears of an escalation of the Middle East crisis.

The United States received advance notice of Israel’s reported strike on Iran but did not endorse the operation or play any part in its execution, US media quoted officials as saying.

The US government has said it will stand with the people of Israel after Iran revealed plans to launch a retaliatory attack.

The United Nations’ top court on Friday said Israel must prevent genocidal acts in Gaza and facilitate “urgently needed” humanitarian aid into the besieged territory, handing down rulings in a case that has drawn global attention.

Gunfire and air strikes on Friday shook Gaza’s city of Khan Yunis, witnesses said, where Israel is pressing its southward push against Hamas militants.

The United Kingdom police said Tuesday that specialist officers will assess whether to open a war crimes probe into Israel’s war with Hamas, following a referral from an advocacy group for Palestinians.

Israeli soldiers detained two sisters of Saleh al-Aruri, a top leader of Hamas who was killed in Lebanon this month, Palestinian sources and the Israeli army said on Sunday.

The German government on Friday sharply rejected allegations before the UN’s top court that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza and warned against “political instrumentalisation” of the charge.

The Israeli military on Thursday denied it had bombed an ambulance in the central Gaza Strip a day earlier which killed four medics and two other people.

Dozens of people took to the streets in Cape Town on Thursday in one of several demonstrations planned across South Africa in support of the government’s “genocide” case against Israel.