The Council of the League of Arab States welcomed Monday the announcement by Head of the Presidential Council, Mohammed Menfi, that Libya would join the legal team of South Africa to sue Israel for its violations against the Palestinian people, especially in relation to the case of Israeli genocide in Gaza that was lodged with the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The Council condemned in a statement the continued crimes of Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, targeting tens of thousands of civilians, and subjecting the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip to a deadly siege that cuts off all means of life,. It said that Israeli actions constituted a crime of genocide against the Palestinian people.
The statement called on the United States and the countries that support the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people within the Security Council to adopt positions consistent with international law and international humanitarian law, call for a permanent ceasefire, and to commit Israel to stop its aggression and withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
The Council also reaffirmed support for the joint Qatari-Egyptian efforts aimed at reaching a permanent ceasefire and restoring normal living conditions to the Gaza Strip.
“We decided to form a temporary open-membership committee of permanent delegates and the General Secretariat to go over Arab measures that could be taken at the legal, economic, political and diplomatic levels to help achieve better conditions in Palestine.
