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Published: 11 November 2023
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The bloody events in Gaza continue to cast a shadow all over the world, and in response to
the exceptional circumstances witnessed in Gaza and aimed at uniting efforts and coming
up with a unified collective position, the Joint Arab – Islamic summit was launched today in
the Saudi capital Riyadh, in which the leaders of the countries called for a ceasefire and war
on Gaza before the scale of violence expands in the region.
Edited by| Hugh Gey
Politic section - CJ journalist
Gaza conflict news section
Riyadh – November,11,2023
The summit also called for an end to the war in Gaza and refused to justify Israeli actions
against the Palestinians as self-defense,"the statement said.
The emergency meetings of the Arab League and the organization of Islamic Cooperation
come in light of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and the
violent bombing campaign and the Israeli barbaric attack since that date have killed more
than 11,078 people, including more than 4,506 children, according to the latest toll
announced by the Ministry of health of the Hamas government on Friday.
The Arab League and the organization of Islamic Cooperation were supposed to hold two
separate summits, but the Saudi Foreign Ministry announced early Saturday that an
"extraordinary joint Arab-Islamic summit" would be held exceptionally today.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its account on the X platform that the
decision to merge the two summits came "out of a sense from the leaders of all countries of
the importance of uniting efforts and coming up with a unified collective position that
expresses the common Arab-Islamic Will regarding the dangerous and unprecedented
developments in Gaza and the Palestinian territories that require unity of the Arab and
Islamic ranks in confronting them and containing their repercussions".
The Arab League aims to show " how the Arabs can act on the international arena to stop
the aggression, support Palestine and its people, condemn the Israeli occupation and hold it
accountable for its crimes," said the league's Assistant Secretary-General Hossam Zaki on
Thursday.
The summit condemns "the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the war crimes and the
barbaric, brutal and inhumane massacres committed by the colonial occupation
government,"the statement said.
The statement also called for breaking the blockade on Gaza, allowing Arab, Islamic and
international humanitarian aid convoys to enter the Strip, and halting arms and ammunition
exports to Israel.
The leaders of the Arab and Islamic countries demanded a" comprehensive solution "that
would guarantee the unity of Gaza and the West Bank as"territory for a Palestinian state".
The joint final statement stated that the summit "rejects any proposals that enshrine the
separation of Gaza from the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and affirms 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 free, independent, sovereign and with East Jerusalem as its
capital on the lines of the Fourth of June 1967".