Saudi Arabia condemned “in the strongest terms” the Israeli ground operation in Gaza City, the Kingdom’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

The ministry denounced the “incursions of the Israeli occupation forces into the Gaza Strip, and their continued commission of crimes” against the Palestinians, and highlighted the international community’s failure to take “effective measures” to stop the ongoing war in Gaza.

Saudi Arabia also urged members of the UN Security Council to take immediate action to halt what it said was Israel’s killing, starvation and forced displacement of Palestinians, the foreign ministry said its statement.

The Israeli military unleashed a massive bombardment of Gaza City before dawn on Tuesday and pushed its troops deeper into the Gaza Strip’s largest urban hub.

The Israeli army claimed that it struck more than 150 targets in Gaza City since launching the ground offensive.