Follow-up – Al-Rasheed
The Arab League announced that it will hold an extraordinary session today, Thursday, at the level of permanent delegates, headed by Yemen, to discuss “the policy of confronting the crimes of genocide and settlement expansion.”
The Palestinian representative to the Arab League, Ambassador Muhannad Al-Aklouk, said, “The meeting will discuss the Arab movement, especially since it will be held in light of the ongoing crime of genocide committed by Israel, the occupying power, against the Palestinian people for nearly 9 consecutive months, and in light of the decisions of the occupation government that aim to prevent the embodiment of the independence of the State of Palestine on the ground and to persist in plans to annex the occupied West Bank lands.”
He added, “The meeting will discuss the colonial settlement expansion, undermining the powers of the Palestinian government and the piracy of its funds.”
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, said that groups of people were literally exterminated in the Gaza Strip, and that no other term could be used to describe what was happening except “genocide.”
Earlier, UNRWA spokeswoman Louise Waterridge denounced the difficult conditions experienced by Palestinians under siege in the Gaza Strip for 9 months.
