Abbas calls for emergency summit of Arab states on Gaza
Palestinian President said about it at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has urged Arab leaders to convene an emergency summit in order to try to stop Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, Abbas said at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), held in Ramallah in the West Bank.
“I call on Arab leaders to hold an emergency Arab summit so as to stop [Israel’s] brutal aggression against the Palestinians <…>, to [team up] in countering international challenges and to go great lengths so that our people can stay on their land,” said Abbas, quoted by the Ma’an news agency as saying.
According to Abbas, the Palestinians are currently “going through a war of genocide and mass killngs committed by Israel in the face of the world.”
In response to all the efforts in the international arena, including the UN General Assembly resolution on Gaza, Israel has launched “a ground invasion and unprecedented bombardment of the Palestinian enclave.” The Palestinian leader called on all countries to put pressure on Tel Aviv to “stop the flow of Palestinian blood.”
Tensions flared up in the Middle East after Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip attacked Israeli territory on October 7, when many Israelis living in the settlements near the border were killed and more than 200 people, including children, women and the elderly, were taken hostage. Hamas views its attack as a response to Israeli authorities’ steps against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.
According to the latest statistics of the Gaza health ministry, more than 7,700 Gazans, including 3,195 children and teenagers, have been killed and nearly 19,000 more wounded as a result of Israeli bombardment and shelling of Gaza since the escalation broke out.
