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Arab League Council affirms support for Qatari-Egyptian Gaza truce efforts

QNA Cairo TheArab League Council has affirmed support for the ongoing efforts of the joint Qatari-Egyptian mediation to end the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. The Arab League Council, at the level of permanent delegates, on Sunday expressed its condemnation and rejection of the decisions and plans of the Israeli occupation government to impose complete military control over the Gaza Strip and displace the Palestinian people. It also condemned the crimes of aggression, genocide, and ethnic cleansing committed by Israel, the occupying power, against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem. The council, in Resolution No. 9169 issued during its extraordinary session held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in Cairo at the request of the State of Palestine, affirmed that these Israeli decisions and plans constitute a violation of international law and international conventions, a blatant aggression against all Arab states, their national security, and their political and economic interests, and a threat to security, peace, and stability in the region. The council renewed its call for protecting the Palestinian people from genocide, displacement, and ethnic cleansing, and to prevent the liquidation of their central cause, in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions, international law, and relevant international and regional agreements. The council stressed the need to implement the decisions of the Arab Summits and the joint Arab and Islamic Summits to break and end the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip.