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Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:39 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Arab League Council calls on the international community to provide protection for the Palestinian people

Cairo - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Council of the League of Arab States, at the level of permanent delegates, called on the international community to provide protection for the Palestinian people, and to implement resolutions related to the protection of civilians, especially Security Council Resolutions No. 904 (1994) and No. 605 (1987), and Resolution United Nations General Assembly on the Protection of Palestinian Civilians No. 10/20- RES/ES (201).


At the end of the work of the extraordinary session, which was held today, Thursday, at the headquarters of the Arab League in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the Council condemned the widespread Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people in various cities, villages and camps, which are classified as war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to international humanitarian law and international law. human rights, including the brutal Israeli aggression on the city of Nablus yesterday, Wednesday.


He urged the states and institutions of the international community to participate in the protection of Palestinian civilians, and to form a practical and effective mechanism to implement what was stated in the General Assembly resolution and the report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, which included viable options for the protection of Palestinian civilians.


The Arab League Council called on the Security Council to assume its responsibilities in maintaining international peace and security, and to take immediate, effective and effective measures to stop all crimes, violations and practices of Israel, the occupying power, against the Palestinian people, and to end its illegal occupation of the land of the occupied State of Palestine in 1967.


He also called on the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to shoulder their responsibilities and ensure respect and enforcement of the Convention in the occupied territory of the State of Palestine, including East Jerusalem, by stopping Israeli crimes and violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.


The Council urged the International Criminal Court to complete the criminal investigation, hold accountable the perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other crimes that Israel committed and is committing against the defenseless Palestinian people, including crimes of aggression, settlement and annexation, field and deliberate executions of civilians, journalists and paramedics, and forced displacement.


The Council also reaffirmed the centrality of the Palestinian cause for the entire Arab nation, and support for the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, foremost of which is the right to self-determination and the embodiment of the establishment of an independent and sovereign State of Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital on the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967.


He saluted the struggle of the Palestinian people against the brutal Israeli occupation, affirming full solidarity with the Palestinian people in confronting the policies and practices of the systematic Israeli aggression, which aims to bring the Palestinian people to their knees, and the continuation of the illegal Israeli colonial occupation of the land of the State of Palestine.


The Council affirmed all its decisions related to the Palestinian cause and the Arab-Israeli conflict, including the decisions of the Arab summits and the decisions of the League Council at the ministerial level in its regular and extraordinary sessions.


The Arab League Council expressed solidarity with the families of the martyrs and victims of the brutal Israeli aggression, and saluted the heroic Palestinian people who are steadfast on their land, and supported their legitimate struggle against the brutal Israeli occupation, in defense of their land, sanctities, and inalienable rights, and affirmed their right to exercise all forms of struggle against the occupation. In accordance with the provisions of international law, including peaceful popular resistance, and harnessing possible Arab energies to support it.


The League Council also called on the Secretary-General to follow up the implementation of this decision, and to submit a report on the measures taken in this regard to the next session of the Council.

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