TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry took to Twitter to condemn Israel’s attack against Palestine along the West Bank in the past couple of days, which sparked tension in the region as it is touted as one of the worst acts of violence in the past years that killed nine Palestinians.

The Ministry asserted that the long road toward peace in the Middle Eastern region that the conflict may cause, and that this brutal action by Israel will further complicate the attainment of peace in the Middle East.

“Indonesia calls on the international community and the United Nations to urge Israel to respect the rights of the Palestinian people,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote in a Tweet on Friday, January 27, 2023.

As reported by Reuters, Israeli jets struck Gaza overnight on Friday in retaliation for two rockets fired by Palestinian militants, further escalating tensions after one of the worst days of violence in the occupied West Bank in years.

The cross-border fire came after an Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the West Bank on Thursday that killed at least nine Palestinians, including militant gunmen and at least two civilians, the highest single-day death toll in years.

Another man died in a separate incident in al-Ramm outside Jerusalem, bringing the Palestinian death toll so far in 2023 to at least 30.

The raid, the latest in a near-daily series of clashes in the West Bank over the past year, came days before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due to visit Israel and the West Bank.

DANIEL A. FAJRI

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