Speaking at the OIC’s emergency ministerial meeting discussing Israeli aggression on Gaza, Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Hussein Ibrahim Taha on Wednesday said the latest incident represented a war crime.
He added that it was incompatible with all human values and emphasized that organized state terrorism deserved accountability and punishment.
In his speech at the extraordinary open-ended meeting of the executive committee at the OIC’s headquarters in Jeddah, Taha stressed the need for combined efforts to stop such unprecedented Israeli aggression and to ensure the opening of humanitarian corridors to facilitate the arrival of medicine, food, and essential items to the Gaza Strip.
He stressed that the OIC had warned that there had also been a lack of respect for the rule of international law and that Israel’s actions had not been punished.
“The occupation is free from accountability and punishment for its policies based on settlement, forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, murder, organized terrorism, attacks on sanctities, and other practices against the Palestinian people,” he said.
Taha further stressed that the ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip had violated all rightful principles and values through the killing and wounding of thousands of Palestinians, including children, women, and the elderly.
He added that the forced displacement of families and the indiscriminate destruction of residential, educational, health, and media facilities, including those of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, and civilian infrastructure flagrantly violated international law.
“I hope this meeting will succeed in taking effective measures in order to stop this Israeli aggression, protect the Palestinian people, and provide them with assistance in this ordeal,” the OIC chief said on Wednesday.
“We stress that there will be no peace or stability in the region without finding a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue, ending the Israeli colonial occupation, and embodying the right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent, sovereign state on the 1967 borders with East al-Quds as its capital, in accordance with the relevant UN resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
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