Qatar has called “for intensified international efforts to bring all Israeli nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)” and for Israel to join the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) treaty, Al Jazeera reports.

Qatar’s ambassador, Jassim Yacoub Al Hammadi, issued the call during an IAEA meeting on Israel’s nuclear capabilities and the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, in Vienna.

Al Hammadi “pointed out that all Middle Eastern countries, except Israel, are parties to the NPT and have effective safeguard agreements with the agency”.

He noted that Israel is continuing its “aggressive policies” in the occupied Palestinian territory, including “increasing extremist calls for the forced displacement of the Palestinian people, intensifying military operations against cities and refugee camps in the West Bank, blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza, and maintaining restrictions on UNRWA”.