Jeddah - Saba:
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), at the conclusion of its emergency ministerial meeting in Jeddah on Saturday, adopted the Arab plan to rebuild Gaza without displacing Palestinians, to confront the proposal of US President Donald Trump, and urged the international community and international and regional financing institutions to quickly provide the necessary support for the plan.
OIC stated that all these efforts "go in parallel with the launch of a political track and a horizon for a permanent and just solution with the aim of achieving the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people to establish their state and live in peace and security."
Following its ministerial meeting held to discuss the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and attempts to displace them from their land, the final statement added, "absolute rejection and firm confrontation of plans aimed at displacing the Palestinian people individually or in groups, inside or outside their land."
It also condemned the starvation and scorched earth policies aimed at forcing the Palestinian people to leave their land.
IOC statement welcomed the holding of an international conference in Cairo for recovery and reconstruction in the Gaza Strip, and urged the international community to participate in it to accelerate the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Strip after the destruction caused by the Israeli aggression, and to work on establishing a trust fund that will receive financial pledges from all donor countries and financing institutions, with the aim of implementing recovery and reconstruction projects.
During the emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of the member states, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aati reviewed the plan adopted by the extraordinary Arab Summit in Cairo on March 4. He explained that Egypt intends to organize a reconstruction conference in cooperation with the Palestinian government and the United Nations to mobilize international support for the implementation of the Arab plan, and to establish a trust fund under international supervision.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation called for the establishment of an international fund to care for orphans in the Gaza Strip, in cooperation with the United Nations, and to strengthen the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their stability on their land by providing more humanitarian support and all possible facilities.
It also called for an end to all policies and procedures of annexation, settlement, house demolitions, land confiscation, destruction of infrastructure, and Israeli military incursions into Palestinian camps and cities, as well as an end to attempts to impose Israeli sovereignty over any parts of the West Bank, including East Quds.
It also called on the International Criminal Court to complete investigations into war crimes committed by Israel and its leaders, and for all countries to impose sanctions on Israel, to deter it and force it to comply with international law.
Regarding the Israeli war on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the Organization of Islamic Cooperation affirmed its "rejection and opposition to all Israeli measures, including racist and illegal laws targeting the existence of the Agency and attempts to reduce or eliminate its irreplaceable role," calling on all countries to provide more political, legal and financial support to UNRWA.
Regarding prisoners and detainees, the final statement condemned the crime of enforced disappearance, abuse, repression, torture and degrading treatment to which thousands of Palestinian prisoners are subjected in Israeli occupation prisons, calling for action at all levels to uncover the fate of the abductees, work to release them immediately, and ensure their protection, demanding an independent and transparent investigation into all these crimes against Palestinian prisoners.
It stressed the need to provide international protection to the Palestinian people in accordance with international standards, in implementation of UN resolutions, and in line with the resolutions of Islamic summits. It also called for the deployment of international protection and peacekeeping forces, "provided that this is in the context of the actual implementation of a comprehensive vision with a timetable to build the capacities of the institutions of the State of Palestine and embody its sovereignty over the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967."
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