Manama (Al-Ittihad)
The Arab leaders participating in the 33rd regular session of the Council of the League of Arab States at the summit level, the “Bahrain Summit,” called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, an end to all attempts at forced displacement of the Palestinian people, an end to all forms of siege, allowing full and sustainable access to humanitarian aid to the Strip, and the immediate withdrawal of Israel from the city of Rafah.
Jordanian King Abdullah II stressed that the reality of the Arab region is “painful and unprecedented” in light of the tragedy that the Palestinians are experiencing in the Gaza Strip as a result of the war that put all international conventions and covenants to the test.
In his speech at the opening of the 33rd regular session of the Arab League Council at the summit level, King Abdullah II said, “The destruction the Gaza Strip is witnessing will bring more violence and conflict.” He called for stopping the war on Gaza and for “the world to bear its moral and humanitarian responsibility to end a conflict that has been going on for more than seven decades, to pave the way for our sons and daughters in our one Arab nation to a future free of war, death and destruction.”
In his speech, the Jordanian King called for intensifying efforts to support the Palestinian government to carry out its tasks and to support the Palestinians in obtaining their full legitimate rights and establishing their independent state along the lines of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
He stressed that while Jordan continues, in cooperation with its brothers and international partners, to deliver aid to the people of Gaza, it stresses the necessity of continuing to support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to carry out its humanitarian role and increase allocations to this “lofty and important” organization.
He also called for strengthening Arab coordination to address a number of challenges facing Arab countries and to ensure respect for the policy of good neighborliness and non-interference in Arab affairs.
In turn, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said yesterday that the Arab Summit is being held at a critical historical circumstance that the region is going through, stressing that this defining moment forces all concerned parties to choose between two paths: either peace, stability and hope, or chaos and destruction to which the continued military escalation in the Gaza Strip is pushing. Gaza.
Al-Sisi added in his speech during the opening of the 33rd regular session of the Arab League Council at the summit level in Manama, that “history will pause for a long time in front of that war to record a major tragedy entitled the intensification of killing, revenge, and the siege of an entire people, starving them, terrorizing them, displacing their children, and seeking to forcibly displace them and settle their lands in the middle of the world.” “Unfortunate inability of the international community.”
He stated that his country “while engaging with our brothers and friends in serious and desperate attempts to save our region from falling into a deep abyss, we do not find the real international political will that desires to end the occupation and address the roots of the conflict through the two-state solution.”
He stressed that “Egypt will maintain its firm position of rejecting the liquidation of the Palestinian issue and rejecting the forced displacement of Palestinians or by creating conditions that make life in the Gaza Strip impossible with the aim of evacuating the land of Palestine from its people.”
The Egyptian President called on the international community and all active and concerned parties to strengthen the confidence of all peoples of the world in the justice of the international system, which is being subjected to an unparalleled test, stressing that the consequences of this will be great for peace, security and stability in the region.
He also called for “an immediate end to this destructive war against the Palestinians, who deserve to obtain their legitimate rights to establish their independent state on the lines of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”
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