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JEDDAH, Aug 1 (KUNA) -- King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has slammed Israel's bloody assault on Gaza as "crimes against humanity" and "terrorism", and condemned the international community as "watching over quietly" and being "indifferent to what is going on as if it does not concern it."
In an address to the international community quoted by the Saudi Press Agency, he launched a scathing attack on those who have failed to carry out "their historic responsibility" on the situation in Gaza for the sake of "temporary interests or suspicious schemes".
He added, "they have not made use of recent past experiences, which nobody has been spared from."
Palestinians are being targeted in "mass killings that have not excluded anyone, and merciless and immoral crimes against humanity that have revealed that terrorism can assume numerous forms through groups, organisations or nations - which are the most dangerous due to their capabilities, intentions and schemes."
King Abdullah went on to condemn terrorist groups, who have been particularly active in nearby countries, for smearing the image of Islam through their deliberate and intended murdering of individuals.
"With the heart of a believer in the Almighty Allah who says in His Book: 'And fear a trial which will not strike those who have wronged among you exclusively, and know that Allah is severe in penalty and fitnah (sedition) is worse than killing'."
"This sedition which has found a fertile ground in our Arab and Islamic worlds and which has been given every facility by those biased and haters of our nation to the degree that it has been deluded to think that it has gained strength, spreading terrorism and corruption in the world."
"It is shameful and disgraceful that these terrorists are doing this in the name of religion, killing the people whose killing Almighty Allah has forbidden, and mutilating their bodies and feeling proud in publishing this."
He added, "they have distorted the image of Islam - with its purity and humanity - and smeared it with all sorts of bad qualities by their actions, their injustice, and crimes, making all those who do not know the reality of Islam think that what comes out of these traitors expresses the message of (Muhammad) the prophet of mercy, peace be upon him, whom Allah Almighty said of him "And We have not sent you, [O Muhammad], except as a mercy to the worlds." (end)
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