Members of the Ministerial Committee assigned by the Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit chaired by Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah today held official discussions with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Mélanie Joly, in Washington.

The committee includes Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Trkiye, Hakan Fidan.

During the discussion session, they discussed developments in the Gaza Strip and their repercussions and the Israeli military aggression against unarmed civilians, as members of the Ministerial Committee reiterated the importance of an immediate and urgent ceasefire, to ensure the return of security and stability to the Gaza Strip.

The members of the Ministerial Committee called on the international community to move fast and assume its responsibility to protect innocent civilians from the killing machine practiced by the Israeli occupation forces, noting that talking about
the future of Gaza and the Palestinian issue must come after an immediate ceasefire and a calming of the unjustified military escalation.

The members of the committee stressed the importance of taking serious and urgent steps to ensure the securing of relief corridors to deliver urgent humanitarian, food, and medical aid to the Gaza Strip, expressing their rejection of restricting the entry of humanitarian aid immediately and safely.

The members of the committee reiterated the need for creating serious political conditions that lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state along the lines of June 4, 1967, in accordance with the relevant international resolutions, expressing their rejection of compartmentalizing the Palestinian issue and discussing the future of the Gaza Strip separately from the overall Palestinian issue.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA