Organization of Islamic Cooperation to hold meeting on Palestine next week
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation said on Friday it will hold an "extraordinary meeting" of its Council of Foreign Ministers on March 5 "to discuss the continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people."
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The pan-Islamic body in a statement said the session will convene at its headquarters in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah.
Last November, the OIC and the Arab League held a joint summit in Riyadh, which adopted a number of decisions including assigning a committee to tour world capitals and seek to stop the Israeli war against the Palestinian people.
Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion have killed more than 30,000 people, most of them women and children. The initial Hamas attacks killed about 1,200 people.
The onslaught has also caused mass destruction, displacement and conditions for a famine in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, today participated in a special discussion session held in Antalya, to discuss the recent development regarding the horrific situation in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Maliki said if international community fails to force Israel to cease fire, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will proceed with his threats of unleashing military operation in Rafah, which houses more than a million and a half Palestinians, which means committing more horrific massacres against civilians and forcibly displacing them outside Palestine.
Efforts for ceasefire continue, Al-Maliki added.
He added, "The Israeli occupation aims to strike all aspects of life in the Gaza Strip, and operates within a systematic policy based on starvation, thirst, and depriving citizens of their most basic human rights."
Al-Maliki pointed out that around 150,000 Palestinians are now suffering from famine and living under harsh and unbearable conditions in the north of the city.
He stressed the necessary need for a serious international will for a ceasefire in Gaza, in light of Netanyahu’s stubbornness to the ceasefire, and members of his government are also working to escalate the pace of colonial operations in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.
He also highlighted out the heinous crimes committed by extremist colonists against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, stressing that such crimes will only drag the region into endless war.
Al-Maliki said, "It is not possible to reach a solution regarding what is happening in Palestine, because of the Israeli side, especially Netanyahu, who is very clear about prolonging the war for his personal interests."
Al-Maliki warned again, during the session in which the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Sameh Shukri, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Hakan Fidan, participated, of the Israeli government’s undeclared plans for its war on our people, in light of the international inability to provide protection for defenseless civilians, and to ensure the arrival of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. .
He stressed the need to force Israel to comply with international law and international legitimacy resolutions, especially Security Council resolutions and precautionary measures issued by the International Court of Justice.
