Qatar PM blasts Israel, appreciates Arab, Islamic support ahead of summit | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Doha, Qatar – Arab and Islamic states have condemned Israel’s “barbaric” assault on Qatar and can assist Doha within the measures it can take to safeguard its sovereignty, says Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.

“We recognize the solidarity of brotherly Arab and Islamic nations and pleasant nations from the worldwide group that condemned this barbaric Israeli assault,” Mohammed stated on Sunday. “It expressed its full assist for us and the reliable authorized measures we’ll take to protect the sovereignty of our nation.”

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The Qatari prime minister made the feedback as international ministers from Arab and Islamic nations convened in Doha earlier than their leaders maintain an emergency summit on Monday in response to Israel’s attack last week.

The Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) session opened not with ceremony however with urgency because the delegates got here collectively in a metropolis instantly thrust into the guts of a regional confrontation.

Israel’s strikes on Tuesday killed 5 Hamas members and a Qatari safety officer, narrowly missing the negotiation team assembly in Doha as they weighed a United States proposal to finish Israel’s genocidal two-year battle on Gaza.

“It’s time for the worldwide group to desert twin requirements and to carry Israel accountable for all of the crimes it has dedicated,” Mohammed stated at a gathering contained in the Ritz-Carlton lodge within the coronary heart of the town, including that the assault should be met with “fierce” and “agency” measures.

Delegates from the Arab League and the OIC are collaborating on a joint decision that may specify concrete measures towards Israel. The small print of this decision are anticipated to be revealed on Monday.

The Qatari prime minister additionally chided Israel’s steady derailment of Gaza ceasefire talks, stating: “Israel should know that the continual genocidal battle towards the Palestinian folks, aiming at forcibly transferring them outdoors their homeland, can’t succeed, it doesn’t matter what false justification is supplied.”

Members of each the Arab League and OIC pushed for Israel to be held accountable for its assault on Qatar.

“The continuing state terrorism towards the folks of the area calls for us to draft a decision for the UN Normal Meeting to place an finish to those practices in addition to the violations and crimes towards the Palestinian folks and push ahead for the two-state resolution,” OIC Secretary-Normal Hissein Brahim Taha stated at Sunday’s session.

Arab League Secretary-Normal Ahmed Aboul Gheit, in the meantime, harassed the necessity for a transparent message of Arab-Islamic solidarity with Qatar, stating Israel should be delivered to account for “evidenced battle crimes”, together with “killing civilians, ravenous the inhabitants and driving a complete inhabitants homeless”.

Summit anticipated to provide ‘sturdy assertion to Netanyahu’

There are expectations that the summit will yield a unified and forceful response to Israel’s assault.

In accordance with Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka, the chief editor of the Gulf Instances, the emergency summit will probably lead to concrete measures towards Israel as an alternative of simply strongly worded condemnations.

“It’s been the narrative of the Arab summit that [there are] solely statements of condemnation. However I don’t suppose that’s the case [any more],” al-Mudahka informed Al Jazeera.

“I believe will probably be [the adoption of] sure measure[s] that may give a really sturdy assertion to Netanyahu.”

The Arab and Muslim world is intently awaiting the outcomes of the summit, he added, describing it as a present of solidarity from the area.

The US, in the meantime, stays a strategic accomplice of Qatar, a relationship that dates again to the Nineteen Seventies, al-Mudahka defined, including that Tuesday’s assault is unlikely to vary ties between Washington and Doha.

Al-Mudahka moreover hopes there might be a possibility on the summit to proceed pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza regardless of Israel’s assault on Doha sidelining the negotiations.

“I hope this summit is also a path … to [end] the battle in Gaza,” al-Mudahka stated.