Qatar PM blasts Israel, appreciates Arab, Islamic support ahead of summit

Arab-Islamic acme connected Monday amusement of solidarity with Qatar aft Israeli attacks connected Doha past week.

Doha, Qatar – Arab and Islamic states person condemned Israel’s “barbaric” onslaught connected Qatar and volition enactment Doha successful the measures it volition instrumentality to safeguard its sovereignty, says Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani.

“We admit the solidarity of brotherly Arab and Islamic countries and affable countries from the planetary assemblage that condemned this barbaric Israeli attack,” Mohammed said connected Sunday. “It expressed its afloat enactment for america and the morganatic ineligible measures we volition instrumentality to sphere the sovereignty of our country.”

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The Qatari premier curate made the comments arsenic overseas ministers from Arab and Islamic countries convened successful Doha earlier their leaders clasp an exigency acme connected Monday successful effect to Israel’s onslaught past week.

The Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) league opened not with ceremonial but with urgency arsenic the delegates came unneurotic successful a metropolis abruptly thrust into the bosom of a determination confrontation.

Israel’s strikes connected Tuesday killed 5 Hamas members and a Qatari information officer, narrowly missing the dialog team gathering successful Doha arsenic they weighed a United States connection to extremity Israel’s genocidal two-year warfare connected Gaza.

“It’s clip for the planetary assemblage to wantonness dual standards and to clasp Israel accountable for each the crimes it has committed,” Mohammed said astatine a gathering wrong the Ritz-Carlton edifice successful the bosom of the city, adding that the onslaught indispensable beryllium met with “fierce” and “firm” measures.

Delegates from the Arab League and the OIC are collaborating connected a associated solution that volition specify factual measures against Israel. The details of this solution are expected to beryllium revealed connected Monday.

The Qatari premier curate besides chided Israel’s continuous derailment of Gaza ceasefire talks, stating: “Israel indispensable cognize that the continuous genocidal warfare against the Palestinian people, aiming astatine forcibly transferring them extracurricular their homeland, cannot succeed, nary substance what mendacious justification is provided.”

Members of some the Arab League and OIC pushed for Israel to beryllium held accountable for its onslaught connected Qatar.

“The ongoing authorities coercion against the radical of the portion demands america to draught a solution for the UN General Assembly to enactment an extremity to these practices arsenic good arsenic the violations and crimes against the Palestinian radical and propulsion guardant for the two-state solution,” OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha said astatine Sunday’s session.

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, meanwhile, stressed the request for a wide connection of Arab-Islamic solidarity with Qatar, stating Israel indispensable beryllium brought to relationship for “evidenced warfare crimes”, including “killing civilians, starving the colonisation and driving an full colonisation homeless”.

Summit expected to springiness ‘strong connection to Netanyahu’

There are expectations that the acme volition output a unified and forceful effect to Israel’s attack.

According to Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka, the main exertion of the Gulf Times, the exigency acme volition apt effect successful factual measures against Israel alternatively of conscionable powerfully worded condemnations.

“It’s been the communicative of the Arab acme that [there are] lone statements of condemnation. But I don’t deliberation that’s the lawsuit [any more],” al-Mudahka told Al Jazeera.

Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka, the main exertion of the Gulf Times, astatine the exigency acme [Urooba Jamal/Al Jazeera]

“I deliberation it volition beryllium [the adoption of] definite measure[s] that volition springiness a precise beardown connection to Netanyahu.”

The Arab and Muslim satellite is intently awaiting the results of the summit, helium added, describing it arsenic a amusement of solidarity from the region.

The US, meanwhile, remains a strategical spouse of Qatar, a narration that dates backmost to the 1970s, al-Mudahka explained, adding that Tuesday’s onslaught is improbable to alteration ties betwixt Washington and Doha.

Al-Mudahka additionally hopes determination volition beryllium an accidental astatine the acme to proceed pushing for a ceasefire successful Gaza contempt Israel’s onslaught connected Doha sidelining the negotiations.

“I anticipation this acme besides is simply a way … to [end] the warfare successful Gaza,” al-Mudahka said.

The media centre astatine the acme [Urooba Jamal/Al Jazeera]