Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) —The Organization of Islamic Cooperation in 57 countries held an emergency meeting on Sunday over a fierce battle between Israel and the radical Hamas rulers in the Gaza Strip. Conflict.
Organizations such as the Arab League and Saudi Arabia-based OIC maintain the view that Palestinians should have their own independent state, but Israel has recently signed approval agreements with some of its members. is. It has seen a rather modest response to the attack, as opposed to the full response decades ago, as well as some national concerns about Hamas.
Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Marquis, who controls the autonomous government on the west bank of the Israeli-occupied Jordan River, blamed what he called Israel’s “cowardly attack” at the beginning of the meeting.
“We need to tell Allah to resist the last day,” he said. “We are facing a long-term profession. That is the root of the problem. Crime is committed against Palestinians without consequences.”
However, the Palestinian Authority of Marquis does not control the Hamas and Gaza Strips, which the militants seized power in 2007.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mebrut Chabsogur has also taken a strict policy.
“Israel is the only cause of recent escalations in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza,” said Kabsogul. “Our warning to Israel last week was ignored.”
Responses to combat are mixed in the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf countries. In Qatar, home of the Al Jazeera satellite network, hundreds of people gathered late Saturday night to hear the speech of Hamas’ top leader Ismail Hanier. He is currently spending time between Turkey and Qatar, as in Iran, both returning to Hamas.
“I won’t give in to resistance,” Hanie swore as the bodyguard stood behind him. “Resistance is the shortest path to Jerusalem,” he added, adding that Palestinians would not accept anything other than the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Kuwait’s Speaker of Parliament reportedly spoke with Hanie on Saturday, as did Qatar’s Foreign Minister. So was General Esmile Ghani, the head of the Quds Force expedition to the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Next are Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. These are the two Gulf Arab countries that reached an agreement with Israel last year during the decline of the Trump administration. These countries, like Saudi Arabia, have repeatedly supported Palestinians to acquire their own independent nations. However, government media in these countries, like other networks in the region, do not report the current relapse of violence non-stop.
However, there are tweets of dissenting opinions. In the island nation of Bahrain, a civil society group has signed a letter urging the kingdom to expel the Israeli ambassador for violence. In the United Arab Emirates, where political parties and protests are illegal, Palestinians in the Abu Dhabi and Dubai workforce quietly expressed their anger, worried about losing their residence permit. Some Emiratis have also expressed concern.
“The only democracy in the region,” said Sultan Sud Alcasem, an emirati writer and political analyst. Israeli strike on the Gaza building that housed the Associated Press and Al Jazeera offices..
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Kabsoguru has criticized OIC members who have reached an agreement with Israel.
“Several people have lost their moral compass and expressed their support for Israel,” he said. “If there are half-hearted statements in our family, how can we criticize others who take (or don’t) take our words seriously?”
Hussein Ibish, a senior scholar at the Washington-based Institute for Arab Gulf Countries, said most Gulf Arab leaders were “sarcastic, dangerous, unnecessarily provocative, and unnecessarily provocative in launching Hamas rockets. It puts the Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza at risk as well. ” Unlike other conflicts, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holy place of Islam in Jerusalem, or when Israeli settlers expel Arab families from their homes, it becomes their Gulf leaders. Remove the corresponding pressure, he said.
“I wouldn’t have much sympathy for what is widely seen in the Gulf as Israel’s hard labor and disproportionate retaliation,” Ibish wrote. “But for Gulf leaders and many citizens, it would be much easier to see the exchange as a tragic fire. They sacrifice ordinary people brought by two leaders who have no control or responsibility. And then. “
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Associated Press writers Aya Batrawy and Malak Harb of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Bassem Muroue of Beirut contributed to this report.