The Arab League demanded this Monday the end of 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 the immediate cessation of military operations and the opening of safe corridors to help the population,” declared the organization’s secretary general, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, during a meeting of Arab justice ministers in Baghdad.
Aboul Gheit stated that the humanitarian operation aims to “distribute essential goods and help the wounded.”
Since October 7, the Islamist group Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel and the Israeli army’s retaliatory bombings on 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 remarks, that there was no ceasefire between Israel and Hamas at this time.
More than a million people fled the northern Gaza Strip in panic as Israel massed troops near the territory in preparation for a likely ground offensive against Hamas.
“The occupation army [israelita] announced from the beginning that no food, water or fuel would be allowed into Gaza, thus depriving Palestinians of their humanity and paving the way for ethnic cleansing,” Aboul Gheit charged.
The United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) has warned of an “unprecedented human catastrophe” taking place in the Gaza Strip, where 2.3 million people live.
Aboul Gheit and the head of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, considered on Sunday that the ground offensive that the Israeli army appears to be preparing could “lead to a genocide of unprecedented proportions.”
Based in Cairo, where it was founded in 1945, the Arab League currently has 22 members, including Palestine.
Source: TSF
