28-03-2024 04:19 PM Jerusalem Timing

Arab League Urges International Community to Protect Palestinians

Arab League Urges International Community to Protect Palestinians

The Arab League has called on the international community to end Israeli air strikes on Gaza and to protect Palestinians, ahead of a foreign ministers’ meeting later Monday

The Arab League has called on the international community to end Israeli air strikes on Gaza and to protect Palestinians, ahead of a foreign ministers' meeting later Monday.Arab summit
  
The Arab League "affirmed the necessity of urgent steps for an immediate end to the Israeli aggression on Gaza and providing protection for the Palestinians", the report said. Israeli "air strikes on Gaza have become a matter that cannot be met with silence any more", it said.
  
The pan-Arab organization "demands that the international community intervene through its legal and humanitarian institutions to protect the Palestinian people".

An Egyptian foreign ministry statement said Monday's meeting, due to begin at 1900 GMT, "is aimed at finding a solution to stop the shedding of Palestinian civilians' blood and to formulate a common Arab stance on the issue".

The Zionist entity had been pressing in its assault on Gaza which was met with a tough Palestinian resistance that had undermined the Israeli defenses among which is its so-called Iron Dome.