Arab League calls on the Security Council to adopt a resolution obligating the occupation to stop the genocide in Gaza

The Council of the League of the Arab States called on the Security Council to adopt a resolution obligating the Israeli occupation to stop its ongoing genocidal war against the Palestinians in Gaza Strip and its attempts to forcibly displace them from their land and to ensure the entry of the relief aids to the entire Strip.

At the conclusion of its 161st  regular session at the level of Foreign Ministers, the Council stressed the need for the resolution to include enforcement of temporary measures contained the order of the International Court of justice on 26 of last January. The Council denounced the United States’ repeated use of veto to prevent the Security Council from issuing a decision to stop the aggression.

The Council warned of the occupation’s plan to forcibly displace more than one and a half million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, after they were internally displaced as a result of the aggression and pushed to move to the far south of the Strip. It stressed that the occupation’s implementation of the crime of displacing the Palestinian people from their land represents an attack on Arab national security, and will lead to the exacerbation of the conflict in the region.

The League Council affirmed the implementation of the decision of the recent Arab-Islamic Summit in Riyadh to break the Israeli siege on Gaza Strip and impose the entry of Arab, Islamic and international humanitarian aid convoys by land, sea and air, including food, medicine and fuel, to the entire Strip immediately. It also confirmed the need for calling on relevant international organizations to participate in breaking the siege and enter the Strip, urging protecting for their crews and enabling them to fully carry out their mission.

The Council condemned the continuation of the Israeli occupation crimes against the Palestinian people which constitutes a further perpetration of the crimes of genocide, in which more than 100,000 Palestinians have been killed and wounded and the people in the Strip have been subjected to famine, the deadly siege that has cut off all means of life for the population. It also condemned  the systematic destruction of residential neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, universities, Mosques, churches and infrastructure.

Souha Suleiman