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Sat 11 Nov 2023 1:08 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Saudi Crown Prince demands an immediate halt to the Gaza war and condemns the “failure of the international community”

We, the leaders of the countries and governments of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the League of Arab States, gathered at the kind invitation of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and under the chairmanship of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, decided to merge the two summits that the Organization and the League had decided upon. Organizing it, in response to two generous invitations from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (presidency of the two summits) and from the State of Palestine, as an expression of our unified position in condemning the brutal Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, including Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and an affirmation that we confront together this aggression and the humanitarian catastrophe that It causes, and we are working to stop it and end all illegal Israeli practices that perpetuate the occupation and deprive the Palestinian people of their rights, especially their right to freedom and an independent state with sovereignty over their entire national territory.


As we express our thanks to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, His Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, for the generous hospitality.


Emphasizing all the decisions of the Organization and the League regarding the Palestinian issue and all the occupied Arab territories,


Recalling all the resolutions of the United Nations and other international organizations regarding the Palestinian issue, the crimes of the Israeli occupation, and the right of the Palestinian people to freedom and independence in all of their occupied territories since 1967, which constitute a single geographical unit.


Welcoming United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/ES-10/L.25 adopted by the tenth emergency session on 26 October 2023,


We affirm the centrality of the Palestinian cause, and that we stand with all our energies and capabilities alongside the brotherly Palestinian people in their legitimate struggle to liberate all of their occupied territories and to fulfill all their inalienable rights, especially their right to self-determination and to live in their independent, sovereign state along the lines of June 4, 1967. Its capital is Al-Quds Al-Sharif,


We affirm that a just, lasting and comprehensive peace, which constitutes a strategic option, is the only way to guarantee security and stability for all the peoples of the region and protect them from cycles of violence and wars. It will not be achieved without ending the Israeli occupation and resolving the Palestinian issue on the basis of the two-state solution.

We affirm the impossibility of achieving regional peace by bypassing the Palestinian issue or attempts to ignore the rights of the Palestinian people, and that the Arab Peace Initiative supported by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation is an essential reference.


We hold Israel responsible for the continuation and aggravation of the conflict as a result of its aggression against the rights of the Palestinian people and Islamic and Christian sanctities, and its systematic policies and practices and its illegal unilateral steps that perpetuate the occupation, violate international law, and prevent the achievement of just and comprehensive peace.

We affirm that Israel and all countries in the region will not enjoy security and peace unless the Palestinians enjoy them and regain all their stolen rights, and that the continuation of the Israeli occupation is a threat to the security and stability of the region and to international security and peace.

We condemn all forms of hatred and discrimination and all proposals that perpetuate the culture of hatred and extremism.

We warn of the disastrous repercussions of the retaliatory aggression launched by Israel against the Gaza Strip, which amounts to a mass war crime, and the barbaric crimes it also commits during it in the West Bank and Holy Jerusalem, and of the real danger of the expansion of the war as a result of Israel’s refusal to stop its aggression and the inability of the UN Security Council to enforce the law. International to terminate it.


We decide:

1- Condemn the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip and the war crimes and barbaric, brutal and inhuman massacres committed by the colonial occupation government during it, and against the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank and Holy Jerusalem.

2- He rejected describing this war of revenge as self-defense or justifying it under any pretext.

3- Demanding the Security Council to take a decisive and binding decision that imposes a cessation of aggression and curbs the colonial occupation authority that violates international law, international humanitarian law and international legitimacy resolutions, the latest of which is United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. A/ES-10/L.25 dated 10/26/ 2023, and considering failure to do so is complicity that allows Israel to continue its brutal aggression that kills innocent people, children, the elderly, and women, and turns Gaza into ruin.

4- Calling on all countries to stop exporting weapons and ammunition to the occupation authorities that are used by their army and terrorist settlers to kill the Palestinian people and destroy their homes, hospitals, schools, mosques, churches and all their capabilities.

5- Demanding the Security Council to take an immediate decision condemning Israel’s barbaric destruction of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, preventing the entry of medicine, food and fuel into it, and the occupation authorities cutting off electricity, water supply and basic services there, including communication and internet services, as collective punishment that represents a war crime according to international law, and the necessity The resolution requires Israel, as the occupying power, to abide by international laws and immediately abolish these barbaric and inhumane measures, and to emphasize the necessity of lifting the blockade that Israel has imposed on the Gaza Strip for years.

6- Breaking the siege on Gaza and imposing the entry of Arab, Islamic and international humanitarian aid convoys, including food, medicine and fuel, into the Gaza Strip immediately, calling on international organizations to participate in this process, and emphasizing the necessity of these organizations entering the Gaza Strip, protecting their crews and enabling them to fully carry out their role, And support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

7- Supporting all steps taken by the Arab Republic of Egypt to confront the consequences of the brutal Israeli aggression on Gaza, and supporting its efforts to bring aid into the Gaza Strip in an immediate, sustainable and adequate manner.

8- Requesting the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court to initiate an immediate investigation into the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in all the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, and assigning the General Secretariats of the organization and the League to follow up on its implementation, and establishing a specialized legal monitoring unit. A joint document documenting the Israeli crimes committed in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, and preparing legal arguments on all violations of international law and international humanitarian law committed by Israel, the occupying power, against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, provided that The unit submits its report 15 days after its establishment to be presented to the League Council at the level of foreign ministers and to the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization, and thereafter on a monthly basis.

9- Supporting the legal and political initiatives of the State of Palestine to hold the Israeli occupation authorities responsible for its crimes against the Palestinian people, including the advisory opinion process of the International Court of Justice.

10- Assigning the two secretariats to establish a joint media monitoring unit that documents all the crimes of the occupation authorities against the Palestinian people and digital media platforms that publish them and expose their illegal and inhuman practices.

11- Assigning the foreign ministers of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in its capacity as the presidency of the summit (32), and starting immediate international action on behalf of all member states of the organization and the League to formulate an international move to stop the war on Gaza, and to press for the launch of a serious and real political process to achieve lasting and comprehensive peace in accordance with international references. Approved.

12- Calling on the member states of the organization and the League to exercise diplomatic, political and legal pressure and take any deterrent measures to stop the crimes of the colonial occupation authorities against humanity.

13- Denounce double standards in the application of international law, and warn that this duality seriously undermines the credibility of states that protect Israel from international law and places it above it, and the credibility of multilateral action and exposes the selectivity of applying the system of human values.

14- Condemning the displacement of about one and a half million Palestinians from the north of the Gaza Strip to its south, a war crime according to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and its 1977 Annex, and calling on the states parties to the convention to take a collective decision condemning and rejecting it, and calling on all United Nations organizations to confront the attempt to consolidate this colonial occupation authorities. The miserable inhuman reality, and stressing the necessity of the immediate return of these displaced people to their homes and areas.

15- Complete and absolute rejection and collective response to any attempts at individual or collective forced transfer, forced displacement, exile or deportation of the Palestinian people, whether inside the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, including Jerusalem, or outside its territory to any other destination whatever, considering this a red line and a crime. war.

16- Condemning the killing and targeting of civilians, as a principled position based on our humanitarian values and consistent with international law and international humanitarian law, and emphasizing the need for the international community to take immediate and rapid steps to stop the killing and targeting of Palestinian civilians, in a way that confirms that there is absolutely no difference between life and life, or discrimination over Based on nationality, race or religion.

17- Emphasizing the need to release all prisoners, detainees and civilians, condemning the abhorrent crimes committed by the colonial occupation authorities against thousands of Palestinian prisoners, and calling on all concerned countries and international organizations to put pressure to stop these crimes and prosecute their perpetrators.

18- Stop the murders committed by the occupation forces, the terrorism of settlers and their crimes in Palestinian villages, cities and camps in the occupied West Bank and all attacks on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and all Islamic and Christian sanctities.

19- We call on the international community to hold Israel responsible as an occupying power, in a manner consistent with international humanitarian law, to achieve immediate, secure and sustainable access to deliver humanitarian support and basic materials to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

20- Emphasizing the need for Israel to implement its obligations as the occupying power, and to stop all illegal Israeli measures that perpetuate the occupation, especially the construction and expansion of settlements, the confiscation of lands, and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes.

21- Condemning the military operations launched by the occupation forces against Palestinian cities and camps, condemning settler terrorism, and calling on the international community to place their associations and organizations on international terrorism lists and provide protection for the Palestinian people, so that they can enjoy all the rights that the rest of the peoples of the world enjoy, including human rights and the right to protection. Development, security, self-determination, and the embodiment of the independence of his state on his land.

22- Condemning the Israeli attacks on the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, and Israel’s illegal measures that violate freedom of worship, and affirming the necessity of respecting the existing legal and historical status in the holy sites, and that the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif, with its entire area of 144 thousand square meters, is a place of pure worship. For Muslims only, and that the Jordanian Department of the Jerusalem Endowments and the Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is the exclusive legal authority with jurisdiction to manage the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, maintain it, and regulate access to it, within the framework of the historical Hashemite custodianship of the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, and to support the role of the Al-Quds Committee and its efforts in confronting the practices of the occupation authorities in Holy city.

23- Condemning the acts and statements of extremist and racist hatred by ministers in the Israeli occupation government, including the threat of one of these ministers to use nuclear weapons against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, a serious threat to international peace and security, which requires supporting the conference to establish a zone free of nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. The other conference in the Middle East held within the framework of the United Nations and its objectives to confront this threat.

24- Condemning the killing of journalists, children, and women, targeting paramedics, and the use of internationally banned white phosphorus in the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, condemning the repeated Israeli statements and threats to return Lebanon to the “stone age,” the necessity of preventing the expansion of the conflict, and calling on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to investigate Israel’s use of Chemical weapons.

25- Reaffirming adherence to peace as a strategic option, to end the Israeli occupation and resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict in accordance with international law and relevant international legitimacy resolutions, including Security Council Resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 497 (1981), 1515 (2003) and 2334 ( 2016), and emphasizing adherence to the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 with all its elements and priorities, as it is the unified, consensual Arab position and the basis of any efforts to revive peace in the Middle East, which stipulates that the precondition for peace with Israel and the establishment of normal relations with it is ending its occupation of all Palestinian and Arab lands. Embodying the independence of the independent, fully sovereign State of Palestine along the lines of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and restoring the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination, the right of return and compensation for Palestinian refugees, and resolving their issue justly in accordance with United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. 194. For the year 1948.

26- Emphasizing the need for the international community to move immediately to launch a serious and real peace process to achieve peace on the basis of a two-state solution that meets all the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, especially their right to embody their independent, sovereign state along the lines of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, to live in security. And peace alongside Israel, in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative with all its elements.

27- We stress that the failure to find a solution to the Palestinian issue for more than 75 years, and the failure to address the crimes of the Israeli colonial occupation and its systematic policies to undermine the two-state solution by building and expanding colonial settlements, as well as some parties’ unconditional support for the Israeli occupation and protecting it from accountability, and rejecting Listening to continuous warnings about the danger of ignoring these crimes and their dangerous effects on the future of international peace and security is what led to a serious deterioration of the situation.

28- Emphasizing that the Palestine Liberation Organization is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and calling on the Palestinian factions and forces to unite under its umbrella, and for everyone to bear their responsibilities in light of a national partnership led by the Palestine Liberation Organization.

29- Rejecting any proposals that would establish the separation of Gaza from the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and that any future approach to Gaza must be in the context of working on a comprehensive solution that guarantees the unity of Gaza and the West Bank as the territory of the Palestinian state, which must be embodied in a free, independent, sovereign state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Lines of June 4, 1967.

30- Calling for the convening of an international peace conference, as soon as possible, through which a credible peace process will be launched on the basis of international law, international legitimacy resolutions and the principle of land for peace, within a specific time frame and with international guarantees, leading to an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, Including East Jerusalem, the occupied Syrian Golan, the Shebaa Farms, the Kafr Shuba hills and the outskirts of the Lebanese town of al-Mari, and implementing the two-state solution.

31- Activating the Islamic financial safety net in accordance with the resolution of the fourteenth session of the Islamic Summit Conference, to provide financial contributions and provide financial, economic and humanitarian support to the government of the State of Palestine and UNRWA, and to emphasize the need to mobilize international partners to reconstruct Gaza and mitigate the effects of the comprehensive destruction of the Israeli aggression as soon as it stops.

32- Assigning the Secretary-General of the Organization and the Secretary-General of the League to follow up on the implementation of the decision and present a report on it to the next session of their councils.



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