The Organization Of Islamic Cooperation Calls Upon the UN Security Council to an Immediate and Comprehensive Cessation of the Ongoing Zionist Aggression on the Palestinian People
The organization of Islamic Cooperation called upon the UN Security Council to assume its responsibilities and take the necessary measures to compel the Zionist entity, the occupying power, to respect the rule of international law and stop its aggression and attacks that threaten regional and international peace and security, demand to an immediate and comprehensive cessation of the ongoing Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip, and avoid the risk of full-scale regional war that would undermine the security and stability of the entire Middle East region.
Below is the final communiqué adopted by the meeting :
The meeting strongly condemns the continued war crimes, aggression, and genocide committed by the Zionist entity, the illegal occupying power, which have led, over the course of more than 300 days, to the martyrdom and injury of more than 140,000 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children, the destruction of vital facilities and infrastructure, and the displacement of more than two million Palestinians from their homes. It demands an immediate end to the Zionist aggression and the policy of torture, starvation, and collective punishment against the Palestinian people and affirms its categorical rejection and response by all possible means to any attempt at displacement, expulsion, or forcible transfer of the Palestinian people from their land.
The meeting strongly condemns the assassination of Mr. Ismail Haniyeh, former Palestinian Prime Minister, while he was in Tehran, capital city of Iran, and holds the Zionist entity, the illegal occupying power, fully responsible for this heinous attack, which constitutes a crime of aggression, a flagrant violation of international law and the UN Charter, and a serious infringement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national security of the Islamic Republic of Iran
It reaffirms the centrality of the issue of Palestine and Al-Quds Ash-Sharif for the entire Islamic Ummah and the need to preserve the Arab and Islamic identity of the city of Al-Quds Ash-Sharif and Palestinian sovereignty over it, as both an integral part of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, and the capital of the State of Palestine. It also stresses the need for upholding the existing legal and historical status quo in the holy sites, especially the entire Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Ash-Sharif, with its area of 144 thousand square meters, as an exclusive place of worship for Muslims.
It warns of the surge in Zionist colonial settlement, the danger of annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory, and the daily attacks and crimes by the Zionist occupation army and terrorist settler militias in the West Bank, including the occupied city of Al-Quds, against defenseless Palestinian citizens, their property, land, and holy sites, with the aim of forcibly displacing them.
It expresses deep concern over the growing and intensified brutal crimes of the Zionist entity, the illegal occupying power, and its unprecedented violations against thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including executions, torture, starvation, rape, isolation, and forced disappearances, especially against detainees from the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the martyrdom of dozens of them. It calls on relevant international organizations to disclose the fate of Palestinian prisoners, work on releasing them immediately and ensuring their protection, and to demand an independent investigation into all Zionist crimes and violations against them
It strongly condemns the Zionist entity’s pursuit of racist, illegal laws, including the decision to reject the establishment of a Palestinian state and the designation of UNRWA as a terrorist organization in an attempt to undermine its role and prevent it from operating in the occupied Palestinian territory. This includes the decision to legalize settlement outposts and seize Palestinian tax funds. It emphasizes the ICJ legal advisory opinion, which declared the illegality of the Zionist sovereignty over the Palestinian territory occupied in 1967, and affirmed the right of Palestinians to self-determination and to have their independent state. It calls on the international community to intervene decisively to address and end these illegal measures.
The meeting stresses the importance of maintaining the efforts undertaken by the joint Arab-Islamic ministerial group in the international arena to stop the brutal Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people, follow up on the implementation of the ICJ legal advisory opinion on the illegality of the Zionist occupation, mobilize further recognition of the State of Palestine and its full membership in the United Nations, hold an international peace conference, and implement the two-state solution, to pave the way towards ending the Zionist occupation, leading to the independence of the State of Palestine based on the borders of June 4, 1967, with Al-Quds as its capital, in accordance with the relevant UN resolutions.
