The Saudi foreign ministry announced the summit in late October during the first meeting of an “international alliance” pushing for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Country leaders pose for a picture during the special Arab leaders’ summit to discuss the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on November 11, 2023. (Reuters)
Israel-Gaza war:
Arab, Muslim summits won’t stop ‘Israel’s carnage’ amid lack of will to confront US
On Sunday afternoon, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan chaired the preparatory ministerial meeting for the extraordinary Arab and Islamic summit ahead of Monday’s session.
- The war in Gaza erupted with Hamas’s unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7 last year, which resulted in 1,206 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
- Israel’s retaliatory campaign has killed more than 43,600 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to data from the territory’s health ministry that the United Nations considers reliable.
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Gaza's civil defence agency on Sunday said 30 people, including 13 children, were killed in Israeli strikes on two houses in the north of the Palestinian territory.
- The first strike early Sunday hit a house in Jabalia, northern Gaza, killing "at least 25" people, including 13 children, and injuring more than 30, the civil defence said.
- Another strike on the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City killed five people, with others still missing in the aftermath.
Since 6 October, the Israeli military has been engaged in an intensified air and ground assault on areas of northern Gaza, including Jabalia, where hundreds have been killed since.
- At least 23 people were killed including seven children in the village of Almat, north of the capital Beirut. The targeted victims were reportedly members of the Arsifeh family, displaced from Baalbek, L'Orient Today said.
- Also on Sunday, an Israeli strike targeted a residential building in the Sayeda Zainab district south of the Syrian capital Damascus, the Syrian state news agency said.
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Israel-Gaza war: Arab, Muslim summits won’t stop ‘Israel’s carnage’ amid lack of will to confront US
Arab and Muslim leaders will meet in Saudi Arabia over the weekend for back-to-back emergency summits over the war in Gaza, but the talks are not expected to yield much beyond strongly worded statements against Israel and its Western supporters, analysts said.
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