Arab League's Palestinian Representative to QNA: Algeria Summit Important to Set Mechanisms for Urgent Arab Action Against Occupation

Algiers, October 28 (QNA) - HE Permanent Representative of Palestine to the Arab League Ambassador Diab Al Louh affirmed that the 31st Arab Summit in Algeria held on Nov. 1 and 2 represents an important station to confirm the Arab's firm and historical position to support the Palestinian people and their just and legitimate struggle, set up mechanisms for Arab action internationally to confront the racist Israeli policies and practices against the Palestinian people and provide urgent international protection for the Palestinian people. In exclusive statements to Qatar News Agency (QNA), Ambassador Diab Al Louh said that the Arab summit in Algeria is of special importance that differs from previous summits due to the exceptional circumstances that Palestine and the Palestinian people are going through. He stressed the keenness of the Palestinian people and their leadership for this summit in light of the ongoing Israeli, bloody escalation that targets the Palestinian people who are getting assassinated by the bullets of the Israeli police, army, border guards, settlers, and armed gangs. In this regard, he also referred to what is happening in the city of Jerusalem, from the plans of Judaization, displacement, theft, and demolition of homes, the attempt to spatially and physically divide the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, to imposing a fait accompli and change the historical and legal status of the city of Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine. The Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the Arab League said that he expects the summit to mobilize the largest possible international front to end this occupation of the land of the State of Palestine, enable the Palestinian people to establish their independent state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and find a just solution to the issues of the final solution, foremost of which is the Palestinian refugee issue, based on General Assembly Resolution No. 194 (1948) and the Arab Peace Initiative. In October, two weeks before the summit, Algeria hosted a conference of the Palestinian factions which culminated in the Declaration of Algiers to reconcile and end the division. The Declaration of Algiers includes nine articles. Most prominent of which is the acceleration of plans to hold general presidential and legislative elections in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the city of Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian state, according to the approved laws within a maximum period of one year from the date of signing. (QNA)