OIC: ongoing crimes of Israel undermine security and stability in the region

Jeddah, The Organization of Islamic Cooperation called for an immediate end to the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and ensuring the access of humanitarian aid, warning that the continuation of the occupation's crimes undermines security and stability in the region. The final statement issued by the extraordinary meeting at the level of foreign ministers held Wednesday in Jeddah explained that the continued aggression and genocide committed by the occupation against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during 306 days led to the martyrdom and injury of more than 140,000, the majority of whom are women and children, in addition to the displacement of more than two million Palestinians from their homes, affirming categorical rejection to any attempt at displacement, expulsion, or forcible transfer of the Palestinian people from their land. It called upon the United Nations and the UN Security Council to assume their responsibilities to end the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, to en sure adequate and sustainable access to humanitarian aid throughout the Gaza Strip, and to provide protection for defenseless Palestinian civilians. It also called upon all states to take the necessary measures to prevent Israel, the illegal occupying power, from persisting in its crimes against the Palestinian people and to ensure respect for and implementation of the relevant UN resolutions as well as the ICJ provisional measures on the crime of genocide. The statement reaffirmed the centrality of the Palestinian and Jerusalem issue to the Islamic nation, and the necessity of preserving the Arab and Islamic identity of the city of Jerusalem and Palestinian sovereignty over it as an integral part of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 and the capital of the State of Palestine. It expressed deep concern over the growing and intensified brutal crimes of Israel, the illegal occupying power, and its unprecedented violations against thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including executions, torture, s tarvation, rape, isolation, and forced disappearances, especially against detainees from the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the martyrdom of dozens of them. It called on relevant international organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, to disclose the fate of Palestinian prisoners, work on releasing them immediately and ensuring their protection, and to demand an independent investigation into all Israeli crimes and violations against them. Source: Syrian Arab News Agency