The Palestinian resistance group Hamas has called on the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to hold an urgent meeting on Israel’s ongoing military operation in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports.

It emphasised the need to “make effective decisions that lead to halting the aggression and ongoing genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip and to cut any political, commercial or normalization relations with the Zionist occupation”.

Hamas also called for “the implementation of the decisions made at the joint Arab and Islamic summit which took place in Riyadh on Nov 11 last year to break the siege and deliver aid and relief to our besieged people in the Gaza Strip.”

In addition, it called on the UN Security Council to “hold an emergency session and make a decision that obliges the occupation (Israel) to stop the aggression and genocide and to cease its blatant violations of laws and treaties, which have become an effective recipe for destabilizing regional and international security and peace”.

 Palestinians walk as smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Hamad City, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug 11, 2024. — Reuters
Palestinians walk as smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Hamad City, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug 11, 2024. — Reuters

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