Saudi: Gaza assault like Nazi crimes

Saudi Arabia on Sunday compared Israel's deadly assault on the Gaza Strip to Nazi war crimes and urged a halt to its mass killings of Palestinians.

"Saudi Arabia, which condemns the Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people and the threats of Israeli officials to turn Gaza into an inferno, sees that Israel through its actions is copying the war crimes of the Nazis," a Saudi official told the official SPA news agency.

Israel's air and ground assault on Gaza has killed at least 70 Palestinians including children since early Saturday.

"Saudi Arabia calls on the international community to...work to stop the Israeli war machine and prevent it from carrying out mass killings and destroying the rights and property of the Palestinian people," the official added.