Qatar PM blasts Israel, appreciates Arab, Islamic support ahead of summit | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Doha, Qatar – Arab and Islamic states have condemned Israel’s “barbaric” assault on Qatar and can help Doha within the measures it’s going to take to safeguard its sovereignty, says Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.

“We respect the solidarity of brotherly Arab and Islamic nations and pleasant nations from the worldwide group that condemned this barbaric Israeli assault,” Mohammed stated on Sunday. “It expressed its full help for us and the legit authorized measures we’ll take to protect the sovereignty of our nation.”

The Qatari prime minister made the feedback as international ministers from Arab and Islamic nations convened in Doha earlier than their leaders maintain an emergency summit on Monday in response to Israel’s attack last week.

The Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) session opened not with ceremony however with urgency because the delegates got here collectively in a metropolis instantly thrust into the guts of a regional confrontation.

Israel’s strikes on Tuesday killed 5 Hamas members and a Qatari safety officer, narrowly missing the negotiation team assembly in Doha as they weighed a United States proposal to finish Israel’s genocidal two-year conflict on Gaza.

“It’s time for the worldwide group to desert twin requirements and to carry Israel accountable for all of the crimes it has dedicated,” Mohammed stated at a gathering contained in the Ritz-Carlton lodge within the coronary heart of town, including that the assault should be met with “fierce” and “agency” measures.

Delegates from the Arab League and the OIC are collaborating on a joint decision that may specify concrete measures in opposition to Israel. The small print of this decision are anticipated to be revealed on Monday.

The Qatari prime minister additionally chided Israel’s steady derailment of Gaza ceasefire talks, stating: “Israel should know that the continual genocidal conflict in opposition to the Palestinian individuals, aiming at forcibly transferring them exterior their homeland, can not succeed, it doesn’t matter what false justification is supplied.”

Members of each the Arab League and OIC pushed for Israel to be held accountable for its assault on Qatar.

“The continuing state terrorism in opposition to the individuals of the area calls for us to draft a decision for the UN Common Meeting to place an finish to those practices in addition to the violations and crimes in opposition to the Palestinian individuals and push ahead for the two-state answer,” OIC Secretary-Common Hissein Brahim Taha stated at Sunday’s session.

Arab League Secretary-Common Ahmed Aboul Gheit, in the meantime, harassed the necessity for a transparent message of Arab-Islamic solidarity with Qatar, stating Israel should be dropped at account for “evidenced conflict crimes”, together with “killing civilians, ravenous the inhabitants and driving a whole inhabitants homeless”.

Summit anticipated to offer ‘robust assertion to Netanyahu’

There are expectations that the summit will yield a unified and forceful response to Israel’s assault.

In response to Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka, the chief editor of the Gulf Instances, the emergency summit will probably lead to concrete measures in opposition to Israel as a substitute of simply strongly worded condemnations.

“It’s been the narrative of the Arab summit that [there are] solely statements of condemnation. However I don’t assume that’s the case [any more],” al-Mudahka instructed Al Jazeera.

“I believe it is going to be [the adoption of] sure measure[s] that may give a really robust assertion to Netanyahu.”

The Arab and Muslim world is intently awaiting the outcomes of the summit, he added, describing it as a present of solidarity from the area.

The US, in the meantime, stays a strategic associate of Qatar, a relationship that dates again to the Nineteen Seventies, al-Mudahka defined, including that Tuesday’s assault is unlikely to alter ties between Washington and Doha.

Al-Mudahka moreover hopes there can be a chance on the summit to proceed pushing for a ceasefire in Gaza regardless of Israel’s assault on Doha sidelining the negotiations.

“I hope this summit is also a path … to [end] the conflict in Gaza,” al-Mudahka stated.