Arab leaders gathered at a summit in Baghdad asked on Saturday (17) the immediate end of the war in Gaza, accusing Israel, in harder language, of trying to expel the Palestinians from the enclave after intensifying their bombing campaign.
Israel has killed hundreds of Palestinians since Thursday (15), in one of the most deadly bombing waves since the end of the truce in March, even with US President Donald Trump, ending a trip to the Middle East on Friday (16).
Egypt’s president, Abdel-Patah al-Sisi, whose country is one of the leading mediators in the peacekeeping negotiations in Gaza, described Israel’s actions as “systematic crimes” that aim to “oblite and annihilate” Palestinians and “end their existence in the Gaza Strip”.
Iraq Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, host of the summit, said Israel was involved in genocide.
The Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, who spoke at the summit, said that “nothing justifies the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”
After a six-week ceasefire, Israel imposed a full blockade on Gaza and resumed his military campaign in March. Israel blames Hamas’s fighters for damage to civilians for operating between them, what Hamas denies.
Israel’s declared objective is the elimination of Hamas’s military and government capabilities, which attacked Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and capturing more than 250 hostages.
The military campaign devastated the small enclave, expelling almost all its 2.3 million inhabitants from their homes and killing more than 53,000 people, according to Gaza’s health authorities.
Israel faces increasing international pressure to resume ceasefire negotiations and allow food and medical supplies to enter Gaza. UN Humanitarian Chief of Humanitarian Aid, Tom Fletcher, asked the Security Council this week if the country would act to “prevent genocide.”
Iraq Prime Minister announced the creation of a fund to help rebuild the Arab states after the war, with an initial promise of $ 20 million for Gaza and Lebanon, where southern areas were destroyed last year in an Israeli campaign against the Hezbollah group.
This content was originally published in Arab leaders rise tone against Israel amid the escalation of bombing on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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