WNAM MONITORING: The Arab League revealed Saturday that communications are currently underway to hold an Arab summit to discuss the Palestinian issue.
It was communicated by Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League, Hossam Zaki, during a telephone interview on the Al-Qahera News Channel, following Bahrain’s announcement of support for the proposal to hold an emergency Arab summit in Cairo to reject the resettlement of Palestinians.
Zaki explained that “there are current communications to hold an Arab summit to discuss the Palestinian issue, but the date has not yet been set.”
He pointed out that the Arab League’s efforts aim to “counter Israel’s claims and reaffirm the two-state solution principle.”
He confirmed that “the Arab stance is cohesive, and everyone stands behind the Palestinians, with Egypt and Jordan in rejecting the issue of displacement.”
Arab countries, including Palestine, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan strongly denounced on Saturday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to establish a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia, calling his scheme a violation of the kingdom’s sovereignty and international law by forcing Palestinians out of their homelands.
On Friday, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al-Zayani told the country’s official news agency that Manama supports the proposal to hold an emergency Arab summit in the Egyptian capital, following US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a plan to seize the Gaza Strip and displace Palestinians.
As the current president of the Arab Summit after hosting it in May 2024, Bahrain has the right to call for emergency summits in agreement with other member states of the Arab League, according to an Anadolu correspondent.
Trump said Feb. 4 that the US will “take over” Gaza and resettle Palestinians elsewhere under an extraordinary redevelopment plan that he claimed could turn the enclave into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
His proposal was met with wide condemnations from the Palestinians, Arab countries and many other nations across the world, including Canada, France, Germany, and the UK.
Trump has repeatedly suggested that Palestinians in Gaza should be taken in by regional Arab nations such as Egypt and Jordan, an idea rejected by both the Arab states and Palestinian leaders.
A Gaza ceasefire deal has been in place since Jan. 19, pausing Israel’s genocidal war, which has killed nearly 48,200 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and left the enclave in ruins.
