Alhamdolillah a nice move. Must be followed up with concrete steps. Even if no result is achieved, it shows that OIC cares enough.
DAKAR, March 13: The secretary-general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC),
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has called for Israelis to be tried by an international
war crimes court for ‘heinous’ attacks against Palestinians.
Mr Ihsanoglu
told an OIC summit in Senegal on Thursday that Israel was repeatedly seeking to
undermine foreign-brokered peace plans.
“The situation in Palestine
remains deplorable due to the successive crises fabricated by Israel to stall
the peace process and to thwart the many peace plans and initiatives proposed by
the international community,” he said.
“It has become indispensable that
these aggressions and heinous crimes be officially documented and their
perpetrators be brought before international justice designed for these kind of
acts... such as the International Criminal Court.”
United Nations
secretary-general Ban Ki-moon told the summit that Israel’s “disproportionate
and excessive use of force” had killed and injured many civilians, including
children. He called for the violence to stop.
“I condemn these actions
and call on Israel to cease such acts. Israel must fully comply with
international humanitarian law and exercise utmost restraint,” he
said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of ‘ethnic
cleansing’ in Jerusalem by banning the building of Palestinian homes and cutting
the city off from the rest of the occupied West Bank.
An Israeli
spokesman alleged that the source of the problem was rocket fire from Gaza into
southern Israeli towns.—Reuters
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