OIC pushes UNSC for ‘swift’ end to Israeli attacks
The Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in their emergency meeting on Sunday condemned what they described as “barbaric” Israeli attacks on Palestinians and urged the UN Security Council to act swiftly to bring an end to the atrocities.
The top diplomats from the 57-member bloc of Muslim countries held a virtual session against the backdrop of the ongoing Israeli military operation against Palestinians.
The participants of the meeting reviewed the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, the escalating aggression by the occupying Israeli forces, the forced eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem, the killing and maiming of civilians and the growing barbaric attacks on the Gaza Strip.
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Turmoil from the battle between Israel and Hamas has now spilled over into the West Bank. Since last week, Hamas has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, which has pounded the Gaza Strip with strikes. The Israeli Ministry of Defence says that more than 2000 rockets have been fired by Hamas targeting Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Hamas would “pay a very heavy price” for its rocket attacks. Israel has called up 9,000 reservists to join its troops massed at the Gaza border. Hamas says the strikes were in retaliation to Israeli provocations. Israel too has retaliated with airstrikes. Hundreds of Israeli strikes from sea, land and air have pounded Gaza.
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May 17, 2021 at 4:05 pm
As Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Britain, I was proud to work with our partners to organise the estimated 150,000-strong march from London s Marble Arch to the Israeli Embassy in Kensington on Saturday. Our partners were the Palestinian Forum in Britain, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, CND, and the Muslim Association of Britain.
Speech after speech expressed disgust at Israel s deadly bombardment of Gaza following attempts to ethnically cleanse Sheikh Jarrah of its Palestinian residents and the unspeakable violence meted out to peaceful worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque. There was also unanimous support for the Palestinians who were united in historic Palestine as never before. Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism, racism, and occupation affect all of the areas of Palestine under occupation. No location is spared Zionist aggression and oppression, including those Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship because they stayed on