Kuwaiti MP calls for stopping oil exports to Western countries that support Israeli occupation

KUWAIT, Oct. 19 (YPA) – Kuwaiti National Assembly member Shuaib Shaaban urged Arab countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council to cease exporting oil to Western countries supporting Israel and to use it as a weapon.

“It is remarkable that the heinous crimes to which the people of Gaza are currently being subject coincide with the 50th anniversary of the meeting of Arab oil ministers in Kuwait on October 17, 1973,” Shaaban said, according to Kuwaiti media.

He added that the ministers at that time “took one of the bravest Arab decisions ever, which was to stop exporting oil to Western countries that support the Zionist occupation forces.”

“With the interruption of Arab oil supplies at that time, fuel prices rose rapidly in Western capitals, stock market shares collapsed, and performance rates in the global economy declined,” Shaaban explained.

This step affected the global economy for several years, which proves that it is a proven and effective weapon, according to the Kuwaiti MP.

He called for using the oil weapon again to impose a practical and collective diplomatic and economic reality that relieves the pressure on the Gaza people.

The number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on October 7 has risen to 3,478 martyrs, in addition to 12,065 people with various injuries, most of them women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

YPA