Bahrain participates in Arab League Council's extraordinary meeting on Gaza
Cairo, Feb. 16 (BNA): Fawzia bint Abdulla Zainal, Bahrain’s Ambassador to Egypt, and its Permanent Representative to the Arab League, today participated in an extraordinary session of the Arab League Council at the level of permanent delegates, held at the premises of the Arab League’s Secretariat-General.
The meeting, requested by the State of Palestine, discussed the ongoing Israeli aggression and forced displacement plans against the Palestinian people.
The permanent delegates discussed the Arab efforts to stop the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and forced displacement plans, in light of the serious threats to storm Rafah.
In this regard, the Council condemned Israel’s continued crimes against the Palestinian people, and warned of the seriousness of the unprecedented catastrophic conditions in the Palestinian city of Rafah in light of the occupation army’s plans to displace them outside the Palestinian territories.
It stressed that displacing the Palestinian people from their land would be deemed an attack on Arab national security, adding that it would undermine opportunities for peace in the Middle East region and aggravate the conflict in the region.
The pan-Arab council also slammed Israeli’s continued attacks on Syria and Lebanon, killing civilians and destroying houses and infrastructure.
It called on the UN Security Council to take a binding decision to stop the Israeli aggression and forced displacement against the Palestinian people, ensure the flow of relief aid to the entire Gaza Strip and enforce the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on January 26,
The Council also called for providing support to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and rejected Israel’s systematic incitement campaigns against it to undermine its role, urging countries that have decided to freeze their funding to the Agency to reconsider their move. It warned that stopping the UNRWA’s operations in the Gaza Strip would deprive more than two million Palestinians of the necessary life-saving services.
The Arab League Council at the level of permanent delegates also backed the measures that Egypt deems necessary to confront the consequences of the brutal Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. It also voiced support for Egypt’s efforts to bring aid into the Gaza Strip in an immediate, sustainable and adequate manner, as well as the steps Egypt is taking to defend its national security, which is an integral part of the Arab national security.
