Except for Iraq.. The Arabs issue their joint statement regarding Gaza

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[size=52]Except for Iraq.. The Arabs issue their joint statement regarding Gaza[/size]

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10-26-2023
Five days after the “Cairo Peace Summit” held last Saturday, to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas, Arab countries issued, on Thursday, a joint statement in which they denounced forced displacement and collective punishment in Gaza and all acts of violence and terrorism, but the statement was void. From Iraq's participation.[/size]
[size=45]Upon the conclusion of the summit, on Saturday, the participating countries did not issue a final statement, but Cairo issued a statement in which it affirmed the demand for an “immediate cessation of the war” that everyone agreed upon during the summit.[/size]
[size=45]The joint statement, issued by the foreign ministers of Jordan, the Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, and Morocco, included a condemnation and rejection of the targeting of civilians “and all acts of violence and terrorism against them, and all violations and transgressions of international law, including international humanitarian law and international law.” Human rights violations by any party, including targeting infrastructure and civilian facilities.”[/size]
[size=45]The participants condemned what they described as “individual or collective forced displacement, as well as the policy of collective punishment,” stressing their rejection of “any attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause at the expense of the Palestinian people and the peoples of the countries of the region, or to displace the Palestinian people outside their land in any way, as it is a grave violation of international humanitarian law.” “It constitutes a war crime.”[/size]
[size=45]The statement also included the participants’ emphasis on the need to commit to working to ensure full respect for the Geneva Conventions of 1949, “including with regard to the responsibilities of the occupying power, and also the importance of immediately releasing hostages and civilian detainees, and ensuring that they are provided with safe, dignified and humane treatment consistent with international law.” Emphasizing the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross in this regard, according to the same statement.[/size]
[size=45]It was emphasized in the statement that the right to self-defense guaranteed by the United Nations Charter “does not justify flagrant violations of international law and international humanitarian law, or the deliberate neglect of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to self-determination and ending the occupation that has been ongoing for decades.”[/size]
[size=45]The statement called on the Security Council to “commit the parties to an immediate and sustainable ceasefire,” stressing that “failure to characterize flagrant violations of international humanitarian law amounts to giving the green light to the continuation of these practices, and complicates them in committing them.”[/size]
[size=45]The statement urged the need to work to ensure and facilitate rapid, safe and sustainable access to humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip without obstacles in accordance with relevant humanitarian principles, and to mobilize additional resources in cooperation with the United Nations and its affiliated organizations and agencies, especially UNRWA.[/size]
[size=45]In addition, the signatories expressed their concern about the possibility of the current confrontations and conflict expanding to other regions in the Middle East, and called on all parties to exercise the utmost restraint, stressing that the expansion of this conflict will have serious consequences for the peoples of the region and for international peace and security. .[/size]
[size=45]They also expressed “deep concern” about the escalation of violence in the West Bank, and called on the international community to support and strengthen the Palestinian Authority, and to provide financial support to the Palestinian people, including through Palestinian institutions, “as it is extremely important,” according to the statement’s description.[/size]
[size=45]The statement concluded by emphasizing that the absence of a political solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has led to repeated acts of violence and suffering for the Palestinian and Israeli peoples and the peoples of the region, and also stressing the importance of the international community, especially the Security Council, assuming its responsibilities in order to strive to achieve peace in the Middle East, and making rapid efforts. A real and collective solution to resolve the conflict and implement the two-state solution on the basis of relevant United Nations resolutions “to ensure the establishment of an independent, sovereign, contiguous and viable Palestinian state on the pre-June 4, 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital,” according to the same statement.[/size]
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