The Arab League today demanded an end to military operations and the opening of humanitarian corridors in Gaza, on the tenth day of the war between Israel and Hamas that has killed thousands of people.
“We demand an immediate end to military operations and the opening of safe corridors to help the population”The organization’s secretary general, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said this during a meeting of Arab justice ministers in Baghdad.
Aboul Gheit said the humanitarian operation is aimed at that “distribute essential goods and help the injured”.
Since October 7, the Islamist group Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel and the Israeli army’s retaliatory bombing of Gaza have left thousands dead and a million displaced on both sides.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office stated shortly before Aboul Gheit’s statements that there was no ceasefire between Israel and Hamas at this stage.
More than a million people fled the northern Gaza Strip in panic as Israel gathered troops near the area in preparation for a likely ground offensive against Hamas.
‘The occupying army [israelita] announced from the start that no food, water or fuel would be allowed into Gaza, stripping Palestinians of their humanity and paving the way for ethnic cleansing.accused Aboul Gheit.
The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned of an “unprecedented human catastrophe” taking place in the Gaza Strip, home to 2.3 million people.
Aboul Gheit and the head of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, said on Sunday that the ground offensive that the Israeli army appears to be preparing “could lead to a genocide of unprecedented proportions”.
The Arab League, headquartered in Cairo, where it was founded in 1945, currently has 22 members, including Palestine.
Source: DN
