CAIRO, Jul 5 (NNN-MENA) – The Arab League, yesterday called on the UN and its Security Council, to take effective measures to protect Palestinian civilians against Israeli “violations.”
The council, which convened an extraordinary session at the permanent representatives level in Cairo, said in a statement that, it decided to make high-level joint and bilateral visits to and contacts with the UN Security Council, its members, and international decision-making centres.
The aim is to implement relevant international resolutions, to end all forms of Israeli aggression against the Palestinians and provide them with international protection, the statement said.
If the Security Council is unable to perform its mandate and assume its responsibilities in maintaining international peace and security, the council said, it will ask the UN General Assembly to hold a resumed session of the tenth Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly, which was convened for the first time in April 1997.
The session followed a series of Security Council and General Assembly meetings regarding the Israeli decision to build Har Homa, a 6,500-unit housing project, in the Jabal Abu Ghneim area of East Jerusalem.
It was last resumed on Jun 13, 2018, to consider a draft resolution entitled “Protection of the Palestinian civilian population.”
The council also called for an intense Arab diplomatic action to express the Arab position on taking the necessary steps, to end the Israeli occupation and all of its aggressive policies, practices, and measures against the Palestinian people.
At least 12 Palestinians have been killed in the Jenin refugee camp and thousands fled their homes as Israel pressed ahead on Tuesday with its largest military campaign in the occupied West Bank since 2002.
The Israeli army said in a statement that, it launched an “extensive counterterrorism effort in the area of Jenin city and the Jenin Camp” and carried out airstrikes on “terrorist infrastructure.”– NNN-MENA
