The Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit that took place in Riyadh Saudi Arabia on November 11 resulted in adoption of the final statement, which, in particular, condemns the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip and the war crimes and massacres “committed by the colonial occupation government against the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.” The Statement demands an immediate stop to aggression.
The Statement rejects describing this retaliatory war as self-defense or justifying it under any pretext. It calls for breaking the siege on Gaza and imposing the immediate entry of Arab, Islamic, and international humanitarian aid convoys into the Gaza Strip carrying food, medicine and fuel.
The Statement calls on the UN Security Council to take a decisive and binding decision that imposes a halt to the aggression and curbs the colonial occupation authority in its violation of international laws and legitimate resolutions.
The Statement also calls on all countries to stop exporting weapons and ammunition to the occupation authorities, which are used by their army and terrorist settlers to kill Palestinian people and destroy their homes, hospitals, schools, mosques, churches and infrastructure.
The Final Statement calls on the Security Council to take an immediate decision condemning “the barbaric Israeli occupation forces’ destruction of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, their prevention of the delivery of medicine, food and fuel to them and their cutting off electricity, water and basic services, including communication and Internet services.”
The Statement says this constitutes collective punishment that represents a war crime according to international law.
The Statement says that the UN Security Council's failure to act represents complicity that allows Israel to continue its brutal aggression that kills innocent children, the elderly and women and that leaves Gaza devastated.
The Statement calls on the member states of the OIC and the League to exercise diplomatic, political and legal pressure and take any deterrent measures to stop the crimes of the colonial occupation authorities against humanity.
The Statement calls on all United Nations organizations to confront the attempt “of the colonial occupation authorities to perpetuate this miserable inhuman reality.”
The Statement urges the activation of the Arab and Islamic financial safety net in accordance with the resolution of the fourteenth session of the Islamic Summit Conference and the resolutions of the Arab Summit, to provide financial contributions to pay for financial, economic and humanitarian support to the government of the State of Palestine and UNRWA. It stresses the need to mobilize international partners to reconstruct Gaza and mitigate the effects of the comprehensive destruction caused by the Israeli aggression.
