- He stressed the importance of international human rights reports that expose, with evidence, Israel's practices against our people
Urging Member States to complete the payment of their contribution to the annual budget of UNRWA
Condemns the occupation and settlers’ attacks on Jerusalem and the attempts to displace Sheikh Jarrah’s people
- He stressed the importance of Arab countries continuing to support the budget of the State of Palestine
Cairo, WAFA - At the level of Arab foreign ministers, the Council of the League of Arab States stressed the importance of the reports of international human rights institutions, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, which expose, with evidence and evidence, the apartheid regime imposed and practiced. Israel, the occupying power, is against the Palestinian people.
This came in his decisions issued at the conclusion of the work of the 157th regular session, at the level of foreign ministers, which was held at the headquarters of the Arab League in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, today, Wednesday, under the chairmanship of Lebanon, in the presence of the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and the participation of the State of Palestine.
The Council indicated that Israel imposes (apartheid) through systematic policies, legislation and plans aimed at persecuting, suppressing, dominating and dispersing the Palestinian people, undermining freedom of movement, obstructing family life, forced displacement, unlawful killing, administrative detention, torture, deprivation of freedoms and basic rights, undermining political participation and curbing the economy and development Human rights, the expropriation of land and property, and other Israeli racist practices against the Palestinian people, which constitute a crime against humanity and a flagrant violation of relevant international laws, including the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention for the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, and the Rome Statute Basic Law of the International Criminal Court.
He also called on the countries of the world and international organizations to assume their responsibilities and to confront the policies, legislation and practices implemented by Israel (the occupying power), through which it seeks to undermine the achievement of the independence of the State of Palestine and to eliminate the peaceful two-state solution and establish an apartheid regime against the Palestinian people.
He called on Member States to work hard to mobilize the widest support for the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) for a period of three years (2023-2026), in accordance with the decision to establish it (General Assembly Resolution No. 302 in 1949), which is to be adopted at the 77th session of the Assembly The General Assembly of the United Nations at the end of 2022, and the request of the secretariat and its missions abroad, and the councils of Arab ambassadors, to make maximum efforts to urge countries to vote in favor of renewing UNRWA’s mandate.
The Council reiterated its refusal for Israel, the occupying power, to obtain observer membership in the African Union, which contradicts the principles and values of the African Union against colonialism, discrimination and apartheid, as well as the decisions of the African Union issued at the summit level and foreign ministers to support the Palestinian cause and condemn Israeli practices against the Palestinian people .
He expressed his appreciation and support for the efforts made by the member states: Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania and Tunisia, at the 35th Summit of the African Union (February 2022), which led to the suspension of Israel's access to observer membership in the African Union. He also called on the brotherly and friendly countries in the African Union to continue their appreciated efforts to prevent Israel from obtaining a status it does not deserve in the African Union.
He affirmed the implementation of the decisions of the League Council at the ministerial level regarding confronting the Israeli targeting of the Palestinian cause and Arab national security in Africa, and strengthening work with the African Union to support the Palestinian cause and its decisions in international forums, and asking the Arab Ministerial Committee on this matter to continue working according to the plan prepared for this purpose.
The Council of the League urged the International Criminal Court to move forward with the criminal investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed and perpetrated by Israel against the defenseless Palestinian people, including the forced displacement of Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem, and called on the Court to provide all human and material capabilities. For this investigation and give it the necessary priority.
The Council strongly condemned the illegal Israeli decision to classify 6 effective and influential Palestinian civil institutions at the local and international levels in the field of monitoring and follow-up to Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights, as “terrorist” organizations, and considering this invalid decision one of the tools of the brutal Israeli military force in an attempt to obscure the truth and hide Israeli crimes. right of the Palestinian people.
It welcomed the adoption of resolutions on the Palestinian issue, the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and Israeli violations, at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, including Resolution entitled “Jerusalem” No. A/RES/76/12 , and commending the role of the Arab Republic of Egypt in sponsoring and presenting this resolution As an expression of the Arab consensus, in defense of the Holy City and the rights of the Palestinian people, and in order to preserve the historical and legal status quo in the city.
The Council also welcomed the inclusion of "The Art of Palestinian Embroidery: Practices, Skills and Customs" on the list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for the intangible cultural heritage, during the 16th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held in December 2021.
He praised the efforts made by the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan within the framework of the Munich Group formula in cooperation with the countries of France and Germany, and to work in coordination with various international parties to resume negotiations within the framework of the peace process, on the basis of the two-state solution and the approved international references.
He praised the continuous efforts made by the Arab Republic of Egypt to encourage dialogue between Palestinian factions with the aim of achieving Palestinian national reconciliation, and its call to continue those efforts, as well as the recent efforts made by the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria to achieve Palestinian national reconciliation.
The League Council affirmed that the aim of the invitation to visit the city of Jerusalem and the Islamic and Christian religious sanctities in it, including the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, is to break the Israeli siege imposed on it, protect it from the schemes of extremist Jewish groups, and reaffirm that East Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Palestine. Any attempt to detract from the right to Palestinian sovereignty over it.
It also affirmed the refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and the condemnation of the systematic racist Israeli policy in enacting legislation that undermines the historical rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of refugees to return and self-determination, and discriminates against them with rights on the basis of religion and ethnicity. The Council also saluted and supported the steadfastness of the Palestinians inside 1948.
He affirmed the adoption and support of the State of Palestine’s approach to obtaining full membership in the United Nations, calling on countries that have not yet recognized the State of Palestine to recognize it, and adopting and supporting the right of the State of Palestine to join international organizations and conventions with the aim of enhancing its legal and international status, and embodying its independence and sovereignty over its occupied land. Any fragmentation of the Palestinian land, emphasizing confronting Israeli plans aimed at separating the Gaza Strip from the rest of the land of the State of Palestine, and rejecting any project for a Palestinian state with temporary borders.
The League Council also affirmed respecting the legitimacy of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, appreciating his efforts in the field of Palestinian national reconciliation, and calling on Palestinian factions and forces to complete national reconciliation and adhere to the premises and provisions of the Palestinian national dialogue agreements in Cairo over the years. the past, and calling on the international community to pressure Israel, the occupying power, in order not to obstruct the Palestinian general elections in the occupied city of East Jerusalem, and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory.
The League Council affirmed its support and support for the peace plan that was re-presented by President Mahmoud Abbas, President of the State of Palestine, in the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2020, and to work with the International Quartet and international actors, to establish an international multilateral mechanism to sponsor a peace process of peace. Credibility within a specific time frame and international oversight, leading to ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, and embodying the independence of the State of Palestine on the borders of June 4, 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital, including through the convening of an international conference, to re-launch negotiations on the basis of international law resolutions of international legitimacy, the principle of land for peace, and the two-state solution.
The Council reaffirmed the centrality of the Palestinian cause to the entire Arab nation, the Arab identity of occupied East Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine, and the right of the State of Palestine to absolute sovereignty over all its land occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem, its air and sea space, its territorial waters, and its natural resources, and its borders with neighboring countries.
He also reaffirmed adherence to peace as a strategic option, resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict in accordance with international law and relevant international legitimacy resolutions, including Security Council resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 1515 (2003) and 2334 (2016), and the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative with all Its elements, which stipulate that a precondition for comprehensive peace with Israel and the normalization of relations with it, is to end its occupation of the Palestinian and Arab territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, and its recognition of the State of Palestine and the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination and the right of return Compensation for Palestinian refugees, and a just solution to their case in accordance with United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. 194 of 1948.
The Arab foreign ministers affirmed that any peace plan that is not in line with the international references to the peace process in the Middle East is rejected and will not succeed, and reject any political or financial pressure exerted on the Palestinian people and their leadership with the aim of imposing unfair solutions to the Palestinian cause, and that the Israeli occupation government’s actions To implement its plans to annex any part of the Palestinian land occupied in 1967, which constitutes a new war crime to be added to the Israeli record full of crimes against the Palestinian people and flagrant violations of the Charter and resolutions of the United Nations and international law, and to call on the international community to exercise pressure and deterrent punitive measures on the occupation government to make it stop Implementation of annexation and settlement plans and all its other aggressive colonial measures.
The Council condemned the Israeli settlement colonial policies and measures, and demanded the Security Council to assume its responsibilities towards implementing its resolution No. 2334 (2016) and holding violators accountable, confronting and stopping the construction and expansion of settlements, the wall of annexation and expansion, the forced displacement of the Palestinian population and the demolition of their property.
He stressed that boycotting the Israeli occupation and its colonial regime is one of the effective and legitimate means of resisting and ending it and achieving peace, and calling on all countries, institutions, companies and individuals to stop all forms of direct and indirect interaction with the Israeli colonial occupation system and its settlements in violation of international law, including prohibiting the entry of illegal Israeli settlers To the states, and reject all attempts to criminalize this boycott and to silence mouths under the pretext of "anti-Semitism".
The foreign ministers warned against the deterioration of the current situation in East Jerusalem in a manner similar to the conditions that preceded the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in 2021, stressing the need for Israel to assume its responsibilities as an occupying power to maintain calm on the ground, and praising the efforts made by the Arab Republic of Egypt to implement the second phase of efforts The reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, which came after Egyptian companies removed the rubble and rubble left by the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, within the framework of the generous pledge made by the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, worth $500 million in favor of the reconstruction process in the Gaza Strip.
He called for the continuation of joint Arab and Islamic action at the level of governments, parliaments and unions to support the Palestinian cause, and to continue assigning the Secretary-General of the League to consult and coordinate with the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in various topics and procedures related to the Palestinian cause, and mechanisms for implementing Arab and Islamic decisions in this regard.
The Council valued the efforts of the non-permanent Arab member of the Security Council, the United Arab Emirates, in following up on the developments of the Palestinian issue in the Security Council, and the need to continue assigning the two Arab groups in the Human Rights Council and UNESCO to move to support and follow up on Palestine’s decisions in the two organizations, and the continued assignment of the Arab group to the United Nations To mobilize support and support for resolutions related to the Palestinian issue in the General Assembly, to follow up efforts within the Security Council to assume its responsibilities in maintaining international peace and security, to end the occupation, to stop all illegal Israeli practices, and to address the possibility of the occupation authorities illegally annexing parts of the occupied West Bank lands Follow-up on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016) regarding illegal Israeli settlements, follow-up on the State of Palestine’s obtaining full membership in the United Nations, and take all necessary measures to counter Israel’s candidacy for membership or for a position in United Nations bodies and committeesThe United Nations, confronting attempts to undermine resolutions related to the Palestinian issue and East Jerusalem, and requesting the Secretary-General to follow up on the implementation of this resolution and to submit a report on the measures taken in this regard to the next session of the Council.
The Council reiterated its affirmation that East Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Palestine, rejecting any attempt to diminish the right to Palestinian sovereignty over it, and strongly condemning and categorically rejecting all systematic and illegal Israeli policies and plans aimed at legitimizing the annexation of the Holy City, distorting its Arab identity, changing its demographic structure and undermining its expansion. The population and urban areas of its people, isolating it from its Palestinian environment, emphasizing that these policies, plans and practices constitute a violation of relevant international resolutions, including Security Council Resolutions Nos. 252 (1968), 267 (1969), 476 and 478 (1980), and saluting and supporting the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and its institutions In the occupied city of Jerusalem, confronting the systematic Israeli policies aimed at changing the demographic, legal and historical status of the city and its sanctities.
The foreign ministers strongly condemned the decisions and actions of Israel, the occupying power, and its unjust judicial system, and the organized terrorist campaigns of Israeli settlers backed by the occupation army and police, which aim to displace the residents of the occupied city of Jerusalem, including the families of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the rest of the city’s neighborhoods and regions, as part of a systematic Israeli campaign for ethnic cleansing and the establishment of the apartheid regime.
The Council called on the United Nations and specialized international organizations, including the Security Council, to assume legal, moral and humanitarian responsibilities in order to immediately stop this aggression and forced displacement, and to provide international protection for the Palestinian people.
The League Council also called on the United States of America to reopen its general consulate in occupied East Jerusalem, and to reopen the Palestine Liberation Organization mission in Washington, as soon as possible to resume representation of bilateral interests between the American and Palestinian sides at all levels.
The foreign ministers expressed their rejection and condemnation of all violations by Israel (the occupying power) of the Islamic and Christian holy places, especially the attempts to change the historical and legal situation in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, dividing it temporally and spatially, and undermining the freedom of prayer of Muslims in it and keeping them away from it, as well as an attempt Controlling the Jordanian Islamic Endowment Administration in occupied Jerusalem, attacking its employees, preventing them from practicing their work, trying to impose Israeli law on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Al-Sharif, and carrying out Israeli excavations under it with the aim of falsifying its history and undermining its foundations.
The League Council strongly condemned the escalation of the Israeli aggression against the occupied city of Jerusalem through the intensification of the policy of house demolitions and forced displacement of citizens in the neighborhoods and towns of the occupied city of Jerusalem, as well as the unprecedented escalation of Israeli settlement plans and projects in the city, including the so-called “city center scheme”. Jerusalem, the Silicon Valley project, the City of David project, the settlers’ cable car project, the Jerusalem front project, and the real estate and property settlement project in the city, which aims to plunder more Palestinian land and real estate in the Old City and its surroundings, and demolish economic facilities. The Palestinian Authority, imposing exorbitant taxes on Jerusalemites, and erasing Arab antiquities in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
He also called on the international community to take practical deterrent measures for these colonial projects that violate international law and relevant United Nations resolutions, and endanger security, peace and stability in the region.
He also strongly condemned the repeated incursions by extremist settlers’ gangs and Israeli officials to the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the assault on its sanctity, under the support, protection and participation of the government and the Israeli occupation forces, and warning against the direction of the so-called Israeli Supreme Court to allow settlers and Jewish intruders to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque after it had previously allowed them to storm and desecrate it. Within the Israeli plans to divide the mosque in time and space, and warn that these attacks will have serious repercussions and repercussions on international peace and security.
The Council called on Member States to support the efforts of the State of Palestine at UNESCO to preserve the cultural and historical heritage of Palestine, especially in Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and to cooperate closely with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to issue resolutions from UNESCO, on top of which is the emphasis on naming the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Al-Sharif as synonymous with one meaning Emphasizing that the Mughrabi Gate hill is an integral part of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the right to manage the endowments of Jerusalem and the affairs of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jordan, as it is the sole and exclusive legal authority responsible for the campus in its management, maintenance, preservation and regulation of entry to it.
And condemned, what Israel (the occupying power) is doing to seize the lands of Jerusalemites and the illegal demolition of their homes, including the frantic Israeli campaign it recently carried out, which included the demolition and seizure of residential buildings in different areas and neighborhoods of the city of Jerusalem, to serve For its settlement projects inside and outside the Old City walls, as well as continuing to bulldoze thousands of dunams in favor of establishing a project called “Greater Jerusalem”, including the settlement project called ( E1 ), and building a settlement cordon that disrupts the Palestinian geographical contiguity with the aim of tightening control over it.
The Council also reiterated its condemnation of the systematic Israeli policy to distort and change the Arab and Islamic culture and identity of the city of Jerusalem, whether through the closure of Palestinian cultural institutions and attempts to steal Palestinian heritage, or through attempts to change the educational curricula in the city of Jerusalem, and the imposition of the forged Israeli curriculum instead of the Palestinian curriculum in schools. Arab, including the application of financial and administrative sanctions on Palestinian schools that do not comply with this malicious policy.
The Council reiterated its rejection and condemnation of any unilateral decision that violates the legal status of the city of Jerusalem, including the previous decision of the United States of America to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel (the occupying power) and to transfer its embassy there, and the decisions of Kosovo and the Czech Republic, which violate international law, to open two diplomatic missions in the city. Including the opening of any offices or diplomatic missions in them, which constitutes an aggression against the rights of the Palestinian people and a provocation to the feelings of the Arab Islamic and Christian nation, and considering these decisions null and void, and a serious breach of international law and relevant United Nations resolutions, and the legal advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in the issue of the separation wall They set dangerous precedents that encourage violations of international law and international legitimacy, undermine efforts to achieve peace, and threaten international peace and security.
The Council reaffirmed the Member States’ intention to take all necessary practical measures, at the political, diplomatic and economic levels, to confront any decision by any country that recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel (the occupying power), moves its embassy there, or violates the city’s legal status, in implementation of the decisions of the summits and successive Arab ministerial councils, and follow-up on the implementation of the decisions of the League Council regarding the violation by some countries of the legal status of the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, as well as the international media plan and the integrated action plan prepared by the General Secretariat in this regard.
He called on all countries to abide by Security Council Resolutions 476 and 478 (1980), and United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/ES-10/19 (2017), which affirmed that any resolutions or measures aimed at changing the character of the Holy City of Jerusalem Its status or demographic composition has no legal effect, and that it is null and void, and called on all countries to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions in the Holy City of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and stressed that the issue of Jerusalem is one of the final status issues that must be resolved through negotiations in accordance with the relevant Security Council resolutions. .
The Council affirmed its support for the decisions and procedures of the State of Palestine in the face of any country that recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of the occupying state, including filing a lawsuit before the International Court of Justice against any country that violates international conventions and laws in a way that affects the legal status of the city of Jerusalem, and work with the State of Palestine to achieve the goal of those decisions on all levels.
The Ministerial Council condemned the Israeli measures represented in the application of a racist law targeting the right of Palestinian Jerusalemites in their city, according to which identity cards are withdrawn from thousands of Palestinian Jerusalemites living in the suburbs of occupied Jerusalem or outside it, and condemning the resumption of the application of the so-called “Absentees’ Property Law,” which targets Confiscation of the real estate of Jerusalemites, and asking the international community to pressure Israel (the occupying power) to stop its racist decisions and laws, which work to empty the city of its original inhabitants, by forcibly removing them from their city, imposing exorbitant taxes on them, and not granting them building permits.
He called on the international community to pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to stop the policy of home confinement that they practice extensively and systematically against the children of the occupied city of Jerusalem, with the aim of sowing fear and mental illness in the awareness of the Palestinian child to destroy his future, and condemning the arbitrary Israeli measures to arrest and impose house arrest on Palestinian legal persons in the city. Jerusalem, and the continued closure of national institutions operating in Jerusalem, and the demand for their reopening, especially the Orient House and the Chamber of Commerce, to enable them to provide services to Jerusalemite citizens and protect the Palestinian presence in the Holy City.
The Council of the League called on all countries to implement the resolutions issued by the United Nations and the Executive Council of UNESCO regarding the Palestinian issue, including its World Heritage Committee, which affirmed that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram Al-Sharif is an Islamic site dedicated to worship and an integral part of World cultural heritage sites, condemning the illegal Israeli attacks on it .
He affirmed the collective Arab and Islamic responsibility towards Jerusalem, and called on all countries, Arab and Islamic organizations, Arab funds and civil society organizations, to provide the necessary funding to implement the projects contained in the strategic plan for sectoral development in East Jerusalem (2018-2022), which was submitted by the State of Palestine, with the aim of saving the Holy City Protecting its holy sites and strengthening the steadfastness of its people, in the face of Israeli plans and practices to Judaize the city and displace its people.
He stressed the need to work on following up on the implementation of the decision to support the Palestinian economy, which was adopted by the fourth session of the Arab Development Summit in Beirut on January 20, 2019, which adopted an Arab-Islamic intervention mechanism to implement the plan in coordination with the State of Palestine .
The Council rejected the systematic and illegal Israeli measures to undermine the churches and weaken the Christian presence in the Holy City, which constitutes a flagrant violation of the existing legal and historical status of the city's sanctities, and a serious violation of relevant international agreements and obligations .
The Council expressed appreciation for the efforts of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in supporting the city of Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Palestine, and strengthening the steadfastness of its people.
He also appreciated the efforts made by the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria in support of the Palestinian cause, whether through historical political stances, or through its commitment to provide financial support to the budget of the State of Palestine.
The Council valued the efforts of the Arab Parliament to support the Palestinian cause, protect the legal, spiritual and historical status of the occupied city of Jerusalem, and call on Arab parliaments to take similar actions with parliaments around the world.
And he called for the need to continue assigning the Arab group in New York to continue its actions to expose the danger of what the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is being exposed to in terms of dangerous, Judaizing Israeli measures and practices, which have dire repercussions on international peace and security .
The Council strongly condemned the illegal expansionist Israeli settlement policy in its various manifestations, on the entire territory of the State of Palestine occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem.
He stressed that the Israeli settlements are null and void and will not constitute an acceptable fait accompli, and represent a violation of international law, United Nations resolutions and the Fourth Geneva Convention, a war crime in accordance with the Rome Statute, and a challenge to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice issued on 9/7/2004, which aims to divide the Palestinian land Undermining its geographical contiguity, and emphasizing the need to develop practical plans to confront this Israeli policy .
It called on the international community to implement Security Council Resolution 2334 of (2016), which affirmed that Israeli settlement constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and an obstacle to peace, and called on Israel (the occupying power), to immediately and completely stop all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including: That is East Jerusalem, and he affirmed that the international community will not recognize any changes in the 4/6/1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem, except for changes agreed upon by the two parties through negotiations. As well as emphasizing the implementation of other relevant international resolutions ruling the illegality and legality of Israeli settlements, including Security Council Resolutions No. (465) of 1980 and No. (497) of 1981.
The Council also condemned and rejected any decision by any country, which considers the Israeli colonial settlement in the occupied Palestinian territory in 1967 not contrary to international law, and considering such a decision a clear violation of the Charter and relevant United Nations resolutions, including Security Council Resolution 2334 of 2016, and the advisory opinion The International Court of Justice of 2004, the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998, and other relevant principles of international law, and the confirmation of the League Council’s decision at the ministerial level No. 8455 DAAD on 25/11/2019 .
The Council commended the decisions and positions issued by the European Union, its Court of Justice and European Parliaments, which condemn settlements and consider settlements as illegal entities, prohibit the financing of projects in Israeli settlements inside the occupied Palestinian territory, and emphasize the distinction between the territory of Israel (the occupying power) and the occupied Palestinian territory in 1967 .
The League Council demanded to continue to call on all countries, institutions, companies and individuals to stop all forms of dealing with the Israeli settlements established on the occupied Palestinian land and to boycott them, including the ban on importing or investing in their products, directly or indirectly, for violating international law, including the ban on entry of Israeli settlers to the states.
He urged the Human Rights Council and the High Commissioner to continue updating the database of companies that deal with illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian and Arab territories occupied in 1967, and to continue to blame these companies for the consequences of their illegal work .
Strongly condemning the settlers’ ongoing terrorist crimes against defenseless Palestinians, their property and places of worship, under the protection of the occupation authorities, holding them fully responsible for these crimes and attacks, and calling on the international community to confront these racist crimes, which are a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, the four Geneva Conventions, and other international treaties and covenants that guarantees the peace and security of the peoples under occupation, and calls for the inclusion of groups and gangs of settlers that commit these crimes on the lists of terrorism, and to take legal measures against them .
The League Council denounced all practices of the Israeli occupation and settlers aimed at seizing large parts of the city of Hebron, depriving the Palestinian population of access to the Ibrahimi Mosque, their homes, schools and work, and calling on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to find effective alternatives to protect Palestinian civilians in Hebron .
He denounced what Israel (the occupying power) is doing to build the separation wall and racial annexation inside the territory of the State of Palestine occupied in 1967, considering this wall a form of apartheid and part of the colonial-settler occupation system, and calling on all countries, international organizations and the Security Council to take the necessary measures to compel Israel (the occupying power) to remove what was built from this wall, and compensate for the damages resulting from it, in compliance with the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice on 9/7/2004, and in implementation of United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. (A/RES/ES-10) /15) dated 7/20/2004, which considered the construction of the wall a violation of peremptory rules in international law, including the right to self-determination .
The Council affirmed the right of the Palestinian people to exercise all forms of struggle against the occupation in accordance with the provisions of international law, including the peaceful popular resistance, and to harness the possible Arab energies to support it.
He condemned the widespread and systematic Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, which are classified as war crimes and crimes against humanity under international humanitarian law and international human rights law, including the repeated barbaric Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, one of whose last rounds was the May aggression 2021, which targets the lives of the Palestinian people and their civil and economic infrastructure, and condemns the suffocating Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air .
The Council condemned the brutal attacks of the Israeli occupation army and terrorist gangs of settlers against peaceful Palestinian civilians and peaceful demonstrators throughout the occupied Palestinian territory, including the towns of Beita, Yatma and Jabal Sabih in the occupied West Bank, and the eastern line of the occupied Gaza Strip borders .
It also condemned the occupation forces’ field executions and arrests of Palestinian children, girls and youth, and demanded the International Criminal Court and other mechanisms of international justice to investigate these crimes and bring the perpetrators to trial, and to condemn the occupation authorities’ policy of detaining the bodies of Palestinian martyrs and demolishing the homes of their families .
The Council called on the international community to implement resolutions related to the protection of Palestinian civilians, particularly Security Council Resolutions No. 904 (1994) and No. 605 (1987), and United Nations General Assembly Resolution on the Protection of Palestinian Civilians No. 20/10 - ES/RES/A (2018). .
He urged the countries and institutions of the international community to participate in the protection of Palestinian civilians, and to form a practical and effective mechanism to implement what was stated in the General Assembly resolution and the report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, which included viable options to protect Palestinian civilians .
The Council affirmed its support for the Palestinian efforts and endeavors aimed at holding Israel (the occupying power) accountable for its crimes against the Palestinian people, providing the necessary technical and financial support for these endeavors, and activating the formation of a legal advisory committee within the framework of the League of Arab States, to provide advice and proposals on filing cases before international courts. Concerning the Israeli violations of the rights of the Palestinian people, their land, property, and sanctities, as well as the historical grievances suffered by them, including the Balfour Declaration of 1917 .
He also called on the international community and international organizations to put pressure on Israel (the occupying power) to immediately lift its siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, in order to end the human and economic tragedy experienced by the Palestinian people in the Strip .
He condemned the Israeli attacks on the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied city of Hebron, represented in the continuation of its division, undermining freedom of access to it and raising the call to prayer in it, and attempts to change its features and separate it from its Palestinian surroundings, and demanded the international community to defend its decisions related to the occupied city of Hebron and the Ibrahimi Mosque, and to take appropriate measures Measures are required to protect the sanctuary and return it to its historical and legal reality, which has been distorted by the occupation forces .
The League Council called on the Council of Arab Social Affairs Ministers to continue to follow up on the recommendations and outcomes of the international conference on the suffering of the Palestinian child in light of the violation by Israel (the occupying power) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which was generously hosted by the State of Kuwait on 12 and 13/11/2017 .
The Council condemned the systematic policy of the occupation authorities to disregard the lives of Palestinian prisoners, and the deliberate medical neglect of their health, which leads to a rise in the number of martyrs of prisoners, and called on the international community, the World Health Organization, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to monitor the occupation’s procedures regarding the outbreak of the “Corona” virus among the prisoners. To put pressure on it to release them from Israeli prisons, especially the sick and the elderly, to protect them from the spread of the virus, and to hold the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for any consequences related to their lives and health, including those who are on hunger strikes and those infected with the “Corona” virus .
It also condemned the illegal arbitrary administrative detention policy practiced by Israel against hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, expressing solidarity and support for the struggle of the hunger strikers with the aim of achieving their freedom, and calling on the relevant international bodies, institutions and human rights bodies, to assume their responsibilities and their immediate and urgent intervention to compel the Israeli government to implement all laws and decisions The international conventions relating to the treatment of prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons, including international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions of 1949, the Convention against Torture, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights .
The Arab foreign ministers called on the international community and international human rights bodies to pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately release all prisoners and detainees, especially old prisoners, patients, children, representatives and administrative detainees, and to force them to abandon the policy of collective and individual punishment that contradicts the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, and the call to send A commission of inquiry to the Israeli prisons to see the violations committed against the prisoners .
The Council also condemned the systematic piracy by Israel (the occupying power) of the funds of the Palestinian people, through the application of the Israeli apartheid law ratified by the Israeli Knesset on 2/7/2018, which allows the occupation government to steal the allowances of the families of Palestinian martyrs and prisoners. of the Palestinian tax revenues seized by the occupying government.
The Council considered that this is illegal blackmail and explicit legislation to steal the money and resources of the Palestinian people, in violation of the agreements signed between the two sides, and in violation of international law, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, and support the measures taken by the State of Palestine to confront this public piracy .
The Council called on Arab and Islamic countries, institutions and individuals to support the Arab Prisoners Support Fund, which is supervised by the League of Arab States, and approved by the Doha Summit D.P. (24) by Resolution No. 574, paragraph (19) on 3/26/2013 .
The Council expressed its condemnation and rejection of any move by any party to drop the right of return or distort the Palestinian refugee issue, through attempts to resettle, or liquidate UNRWA and stop its funding, or the so-called redefinition of the legal status of Palestinian refugees, with the aim of depriving generations of Palestinian refugees and their descendants It is the right of return, and we call upon Member States and the General Secretariat to continue and intensify their efforts on the international arena, and at the United Nations, to confront such illegal attempts .
The ministers also expressed deep concern about the conditions of the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, and the continued demand to keep them free of weapons and armed men, to lift the siege on them, to rebuild them and return their residents to them, and to provide all necessary services to support the Palestinian refugees in them, and to call on UNRWA to assume its responsibilities in this regard, and in The framework of its scope of operations in the five areas, and the call for providing the elements of resilience, a decent life and movement for Palestinian refugees, while preserving their status as Palestinian refugees until they exercise their right of return and compensation .
The Council affirmed the mandate given to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in accordance with the decision to establish it (General Assembly Resolution No. 302 of 1949), rejecting any measures aimed at compromising its mandate or undermining its responsibility, and not changing or transferring its responsibility to another party, as well as emphasizing the The need for it to continue to shoulder its responsibilities in providing services to Palestinian refugees inside and outside the camps in all its five areas of operation, including occupied Jerusalem, until the Palestinian refugee issue is justly resolved in accordance with United Nations Resolution No. 194 of (1948).
The Council rejected the systematic Israeli campaigns against UNRWA, including seeking to close all the Agency’s centers and schools in the occupied city of Jerusalem and replacing them with Israeli occupation institutions, rejecting any decision to stop or reduce UNRWA’s funding, and warn of the danger of this, which exposes entire generations of refugees It constitutes a rejected attempt to obscure the refugee issue, which is an integral part of the “final solution” issues, expressing concern about the annual deficit in UNRWA’s budget, and calling on the international community to secure the resources and financial contributions necessary for its budget and activities in a manner Sufficient, sustainable, enabling it to continue carrying out its mandate and role, and to invite the General Secretariat and its missions abroad and the Councils of Arab Ambassadors to continue contact with donor countries, urging them to fulfill their financial obligations towards the Agency .
The Council urged the member states to complete the payment of their contribution to the annual budget of UNRWA, in order to activate the successive decisions of the League Council at the ministerial level since 1987, and to direct appreciation for the efforts of the member states hosting Palestinian refugees, especially Lebanon, Jordan and Syria .
The Council called on UNRWA to find sufficient means to expand the base of donor countries, increase the funds obligated to it according to the needs of the Agency, without reducing any of the services provided by the Agency, in accordance with its establishment resolution No. 302 (1949), and to continue preparing its budget according to the priorities and requirements of the refugees, and to coordinate with The host Arab countries in preparing and implementing their programs in line with the policies of those countries, and working to involve the private sector in donor countries in financing additional programs and projects, to improve the conditions of refugees in the five areas of operation, provided that this is not a substitute for the commitments of donor countries towards UNRWA .
The Council held the Israeli occupation government responsible for the burdens incurred by UNRWA as a result of the closure and siege measures, the restriction of the movement of aid delivery to those who deserve it, and its demand for compensation for these losses, and calling on countries and donors to fulfill their financial commitments they made at international conferences to support UNRWA, in order to enable it to perform its humanitarian tasks And its political mandate towards Palestinian refugees, and thanks to the brotherly and friendly countries that provide support to UNRWA, including the sisterly State of Kuwait, which provided $23 million in additional support to UNRWA during the years 2020 and 2021 .
The Council condemned the systematic Israeli measures aimed at continuing to undermine the Palestinian economy and depriving the Palestinian people of their inalienable right to development.
He called on the international community to work on enabling the Palestinian people to control all their resources and exercise their right to development over their entire land occupied in 1967 and its territorial waters. It also condemned all Israeli practices, procedures and laws aimed at depleting, eroding, wasting or threatening Palestinian natural resources and wealth in the occupied Palestinian territory. Since 1967, including those located on land and at sea .
The Council reaffirmed the implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly in its successive sessions, which request the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development “UNCTAD” to continue to submit reports to it on the economic costs of the Israeli occupation, and welcome the efforts of the “UNCTAD” secretariat that reports to the United Nations General Assembly to document the cost of The occupation and the economic rights of the Palestinian people, and calling on member states to contribute to the financing of this important documentation process .
The Council also called on the international community to assume its responsibilities and continue its commitment to providing assistance to enhance and enable the building of the institutions of the State of Palestine, and to implement its pledges to support development plans and programs prepared by the State of Palestine, and to call upon the Arab countries to continue to support the Palestinian economy in accordance with bilateral arrangements with the State of Palestine, and to open their markets to free flow For products of Palestinian origin, by exempting them from customs duties, in implementation of previous decisions issued in this regard .
He also urged the member states to follow up on the implementation of the decisions of the previous Arab summits regarding ending the Israeli siege and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, transferring the funds pledged at the Cairo Conference to rebuild what the occupation destroyed during the repeated aggression on the Strip, and calling on private sector institutions in the Arab countries to actively participate in investing in Palestine Supporting the Palestinian private sector .
The League Council stressed the call for Arab countries to abide by the decisions of the League of Arab States and to activate a financial safety net as soon as possible in the amount of $100 million per month, in support of the State of Palestine to face the pressures and financial crises it is exposed to, including the continuation of Israel (the occupying power) to take economic and financial measures Punitive, including withholding tax funds, and stealing a large part of it in contravention of international laws and charters and agreements between the two sides .
The Council thanked the Arab countries that fulfilled their obligations to support the budget of the State of Palestine, especially the sisterly Democratic Republic of Algeria, which recently provided an amount of $100 million, and the sister Republic of Iraq, which recently provided an amount of $5.17 million, as parts of their contributions to support the budget of the State of Palestine, and called on Arab countries to Fulfilling its obligations in this regard and its arrears as quickly as possible, and emphasizing the importance of the Arab countries continuing to support the budget of the State of Palestine .
It also called on member states to implement Amman Summit Decision No. 677 d.p. (28) on March 29, 2017, regarding increasing the capital of the Al-Aqsa and Al-Quds Funds by $500 million, appreciating the member states that paid parts of their contributions to this increase, and the countries Members that have fulfilled their previous commitments to support the resources of the two funds in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the Arab summits, and to invite the Arab countries that have not fulfilled their commitments to expedite their fulfillment .
The Council also called on the Arab Parliament, parliaments, civil society organizations and Arab communities to make efforts to enhance the resources of the Al-Aqsa and Al-Quds Funds, in support of the struggle of the Palestinian people, and to request member states to commit to implementing the Tunis Summit decision. P (30) No. 749 dated 3/31/2019, to support the budget of the State of Palestine for a year starting from 1/4/2019 in accordance with the mechanisms approved by the Beirut Summit of 2002 .
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