Cairo (UNA/QNA) - Palestine on Monday called for freezing Israel's membership in international organizations, imposing sanctions, an economic boycott, political isolation, and legal prosecution of the occupation.
In his address to the Arab League Council during its extraordinary session, held at the General Secretariat headquarters in Cairo, Ambassador Muhannad Al-Aklouk, the State of Palestine's representative to the Arab League, called on the world's countries to fulfill their legal obligations to protect the Palestinian people, ensure respect for international law by the Israeli entity, the "occupying power," and prohibit economic and military dealings with it.
He stated that the Israeli entity not only threatens Arab national security, but also attacks it. It plans to annex more than 70% of the West Bank and expand its occupation into Syrian and Lebanese territories.
The Palestinian delegate to the Arab League added that the Israeli entity seeks to seize Arab natural resources, threatens Arab water and economic security, works to obliterate Arab identity, steal Arab heritage, culture and narrative, and alter the historical and legal status quo in the occupied city of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites, foremost among them the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. It seeks to impose Israeli sovereignty over them, just as it divided and controlled the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron.
Al-Aklouk spoke about the Israeli entity's ongoing attacks in the West Bank, including the destruction of Palestinian refugee camps, the forced displacement of tens of thousands from their homes, the expansion of illegal colonization, the protection of settler terrorism, the reinforcement of apartheid, the demolition of homes, the seizure of land, the destruction of infrastructure, and the storming of cities, villages, and camps.
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