The leaders of Arab and Muslim countries condemned Monday evening the “genocide” and the “horrible and shocking crimes” of the Israeli army in Gaza, and called for support for the “State of Palestine”, following a summit in Saudi Arabia devoted to the situation in the Middle East. This Tuesday, November 12, Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip announced that at least 14 people had died in several Israeli strikes on the Palestinian territory, while the Israeli army for its part announced the death of four soldiers, killed in the north of the Gaza Strip. Israel’s ambassador to Paris, Joshua Zarka, will also be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this Tuesday after a diplomatic incident in Jerusalem.
Information to remember:
⇒ 14 people killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip
⇒ The Israeli ambassador in Paris summoned this Tuesday to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
⇒ Leaders of Arab and Muslim countries call for unity of Palestinian territories within one state
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14 people killed in Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip
Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip announced this Tuesday morning that at least 14 people had died in several Israeli strikes on the Palestinian territory. “At least 14 people were killed and dozens of others injured early Tuesday morning after several (Israeli) strikes on the Gaza Strip,” Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP .
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4 Israeli soldiers killed in northern Gaza Strip
The Israeli army announced this Tuesday the death of four soldiers, killed in the north of the Gaza Strip, bringing to 376 the number of Israeli soldiers who have fallen in the Palestinian territory since the start of its ground operation on October 27, 2023. The names of four soldiers who fell in combat on Monday in the northern Gaza Strip have been authorized for publication,” the army announced in a statement.
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An Israeli minister judges Iranian nuclear power “more exposed to strikes than ever”
Israel’s new Defense Minister ruled Monday evening that Iran was “more exposed than ever to strikes on its nuclear facilities.” “We have the opportunity to achieve our most important goal: to thwart and eliminate the existential threat to the State of Israel,” writes Israel Katz in a message on the social network X.
Israel has for years accused Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, something the Islamic Republic – whose leaders regularly call for the destruction of the Jewish state – has always denied.
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Arab and Muslim leaders for the unity of the Palestinian territories within a state
The leaders of Arab and Muslim countries condemned Monday evening the “genocide” and the “horrible and shocking crimes” of the Israeli army in Gaza following a summit in Saudi Arabia devoted to the situation in the Middle East. They called on Monday for the unity of all Palestinian territories within a “Palestinian state”.
Summit participants “strongly condemned” the actions of the Israeli army, described as a “crime of genocide […] particularly in the northern Gaza Strip in recent weeks”, denouncing torture, executions, disappearances and “ethnic cleansing”, according to the final communiqué of the meeting.
The leaders called for supporting the State of Palestine, to achieve Palestinian national unity and enable it to effectively assume its responsibilities throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip, in ‘unifying with the West Bank, including the city of al-Quds’, Arabic name for Jerusalem.
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Hamas urges Arab and Muslim countries to force Israel to stop its ‘aggression’
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas urged Arab and Muslim countries on Monday evening to implement the declarations made the same day during their summit in Riyadh and to force Israel to stop its “aggression”.
“The affirmation of the national rights of our people, the first of which is the creation of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, requires immediate efforts and practical solutions to force (Israel) to cease its aggression and genocide against our people,” writes Hamas.