Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas said that the United States, “which has the greatest influence on Israel, bears responsibility for the absence of a political solution.... We demand that they put a stop to the Israeli aggression and the Israeli occupation of our land.” The UN Security Council must “immediately put an end to the brutal Israeli aggression on Palestinians.... My mind cannot believe that this is happening under the eyes and ears of the world, without calling for an immediate halt to this brutal war.”
Al Jazeera reported today that Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani “questioned how long the international community will continue to treat Israel as if it is above international law,” and quoted him as demanding to know: “The international world remains immune in front of all these scenes. Who could have imagined that hospitals could be publicly shelled in the 21st century?”
Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the summit that “the world remaining silent in the face of this brutality shames us all.... Gaza has been almost completely destroyed, and Western countries aren’t even calling for a ceasefire. … There is no doubt that whoever remains silent about injustice is a partner in the practice of injustice,” CNN quoted him as saying.
He said Israel is out for revenge; while no one supports what happened on Oct. 7, Israel has no right to kill civilians. “Words have become insufficient in describing what is happening in Gaza and Ramallah since Oct. 7.”
Egypt’s oldest publication Al Ahram quoted him as saying: “Collective punishment against the people of Gaza, involving killing, sieges, and forced displacement, are unacceptable and cannot be justified as self-defense or under any other pretext,” the Egyptian president said.
