Hamas calls for urgent meeting of Arab League, OIC to halt Gaza genocide

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas demanded on Sunday that the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) hold an urgent meeting on Israel’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

It emphasized the need to “make effective decisions that lead to halting the aggression and ongoing genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip and to cut any political, commercial or normalization relations with the Zionist occupation.”

Hamas also called for “the implementation of the decisions made at the joint Arab and Islamic summit which took place in Riyadh on Nov. 11 last year to break the siege and deliver aid and relief to our besieged people in the Gaza Strip.”

In addition, it called on the UN Security Council to “hold an emergency session and make a decision that obliges the occupation (Israel) to stop the aggression and genocide and to cease its blatant violations of laws and treaties, which have become an effective recipe for destabilizing regional and international security and peace.”

Israel has killed nearly 39,800 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 92,000 others since October last year, according to local health authorities.

After more than 10 months of Israeli onslaught, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.