Mar 2, 2024, 6:53 PM

OIC to hold meeting on Palestine next week

TEHRAN, Mar. 02 (MNA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation said on Friday it will hold an "extraordinary meeting" of its Council of Foreign Ministers on March 5 "to discuss the continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people."

OIC in a statement said the session will convene at at the headquarters of its General Secretariat in Jeddah on March 5., Anadolu reported.

Last November, the OIC and the Arab League held a joint summit in Riyadh, which adopted some decisions including assigning a committee to tour world capitals and seek to stop the Israeli war against the Palestinian people.

Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 have killed more than 30,000 people, most of them women and children.

The onslaught has also caused mass destruction, displacement, and conditions for famine in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

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