Houses destroyed by Israeli shelling in the Gaza Strip- photo from Palestinian journalists in the Strip
CAIRO - 20 January 2024: The Arab League will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the ongoing war in Gaza, Palestinian Ambassador to the Arab League, Manduh Al-Aqaluq, announced on Friday.
The meeting will be held at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo under the chairmanship of Morocco, the current president of the Arab League.
The meeting was requested by the Palestinian Authority and supported by a number of Arab countries. It is aimed at discussing Israeli crimes and plans against the Palestinian people.
The meeting will also focus on the escalation of Israeli crimes in the occupied West Bank, the systematic destruction of Palestinian refugee camp infrastructure, the daily raids on dozens of Palestinian cities, villages, and camps, and the Israeli blockade of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Al-Aqaluq expressed hope that the meeting will produce political, legal, diplomatic, and economic steps that can be taken or supported within the framework of the Arab League.
The meeting comes after the Israeli military launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7, 2023. As of Friday, the war has killed 24,762 Palestinians, injured 62,108, and caused a humanitarian crisis. About 1.9 million people, or more than 85 percent of the population of Gaza, have been displaced, according to Palestinian authorities and the United Nations.
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