CAIRO: The Council of the League of Arab States has denounced continuing Israeli brutality against the Palestinian people, which has targeted tens of thousands of civilians and put the residents of Gaza Strip under a deadly siege.
The permanent delegates at the council during an emergency meeting on Monday focused on Israel’s actions against the people of Palestine.
The council reiterated all its previous decisions on the issue, stressing its support for the legitimate struggle of Palestinians against the Israeli occupation, and their right to an independent state.
The body also urged the UN Security Council to fulfill its responsibilities to maintain international peace and security, and to take a binding decision to stop the widespread and systematic Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, which endangered regional and international peace and security.
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The Arab delegates asked the US and countries that supported Israeli aggression against Palestinians to uphold positions consistent with international humanitarian law.
The league’s council also warned of the danger of the forced displacement of 2 million Palestinian citizens inside the Gaza Strip. It said that Arab nations would not allow a repeat of the Nakba of 1948.
Israeli plans to displace Palestinian people
Arab league stressed it would not tolerate Israeli plans to displace Palestinian people and would take the necessary political, diplomatic, legal, and economic steps to prevent it, given that its goal was to eradicate the Palestinian cause.
The body added that confronting the displacement of Palestinians should not be limited merely to verbal statements.
Instead, it should be done by forcing Israel to take a series of steps, including stopping aggression, destruction, bombing and killing, lifting its siege.
The council also criticized an escalation of Israeli crimes in the occupied West Bank.
The meeting lauded efforts undertaken by South Africa in its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, and extended appreciation to other supportive countries.
It also condemned Israeli attacks on Lebanese and Syrian territories, the latest of which targeted a residential neighborhood in Damascus on Saturday.
The body put its weight behind joint Egyptian-Qatari efforts to procure a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
