Palestine requests urgent Arab League meeting over Israeli escalation
RAMALLAH, Palestine/ANKARA (AA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has requested an emergency ministerial-level meeting of the Arab League over the latest Israeli escalation.
In a statement, the ministry said it had directed “its permanent delegation to the Arab League to request an emergency meeting of the League Council at the ministerial level.”
This comes in the context of “the escalation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people,” it said.
Moroccan Foreign Ministry has also reiterated a call for an emergency Arab League meeting at the level of Arab foreign ministers for “consultation and coordination on the deterioration of the situation in the Gaza Strip and the outbreak of military actions targeting civilians.”
Intensive consultations are underway for the meeting to be held this week at the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo, the ministry said in a written statement.
Palestinian resistance group Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and said the surprise attack was in response to the repeated stormings of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and increased settler violence in recent days. It said it fired rockets and captured many Israelis.
At least 350 Israelis were killed and over 1,860 injured in the attack, while several soldiers and civilians were captured by Hamas and taken back to Gaza.
Israel retaliated with a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, which left at least 313 Palestinians dead and nearly 2,000 injured, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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