Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh calls for stopping arms exports to “Israel”

RIYADH, Nov. 11 (YPA) – The leaders participating in the extraordinary Arab-Islamic summit held in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on Saturday affirmed their condemnation of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

The summit’s final statement called for breaking the siege on the Gaza Strip and bringing in all necessary aid to the injured and their families after 36 days of cutting off food, fuel, and medical supplies.

The statement included 31 resolutions condemning the aggression against the Gaza Strip and the war crimes committed by the Zionist occupation government against Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and Holy Al-Quds.

The summit called on all countries to stop exporting weapons and ammunition to Israel.

The leaders also refused to describe this retaliatory war as “self-defense” or justify it under any pretext. They condemned the displacement of about one and a half million Palestinians from the north of the Gaza Strip to its south, as that is a “war crime,” in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and its 1977 annex.

They also affirmed their support for all the steps Egypt takes to confront the consequences of the brutal Israeli aggression on Gaza and Cairo’s efforts to bring aid into the Gaza Strip in an immediate, sustainable, and sufficient manner.

For 36 days, the Israeli occupation army has been waging an air, land, and sea war on Gaza, during which it destroyed residential neighborhoods on top of their residents, killed 11,078 Palestinian civilians, including 4,506 children, 3,027 women, and 678 elderly people, and wound 27,490 with various injuries, according to official sources.

YPA