OIC meeting convenes to discuss Israeli war ‘crimes’
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held an extraordinary meeting in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Wednesday to discuss Israeli “crimes” against the Palestinian people and “aggressions” against Iran’s sovereignty. The meeting was held at the level of the OIC foreign ministers, the pan-Islamic organization said in a statement. In his opening speech, OIC Secretary-General Hussein Ibrahim Taha expressed his “strong condemnation of the war crimes and daily genocide committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.” “The persistence of the Israeli occupation in committing these crimes represents a flagrant disregard by Israel, the occupying power, for all prohibitions, norms, international laws, and resolutions,” he added. The Secretary-General stressed the need to mobilize joint efforts to compel Israel to abide by the international legitimacy resolutions, and to take the necessary measures to ...