OIC condemns “the continuation and the intensification of the ongoing Israeli military campaign against the Palestinian people
Posted by African Press International on March 17, 2008
Dakar (Senegal) The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), whose summit ended Friday in Dakar, condemned “the continuation and the intensification of the ongoing Israeli military campaign against the Palestinian people by which Israel continues to commit serious violations of human rights and war crimes.”
According to the final communiqué of the 11th summit, the Conference expressed “its serious concern with the recent Israeli military invasions and the attacks in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in hundreds of Palestinian victims”.
The sovereigns, heads of state and governments urged the international community “to put pressure on Israel” to lead it to lift “at once” the siege and to end the collective imprisonment and sanctions imposed on the whole of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
They insisted on the need for an inter-Palestinian dialogue, national reconciliation and the restoration of unity “to better serve the higher interests of the Palestinian people”.
The Dakar Summit, whose theme was “Islam in the 21st century”, restated its “unreserved support” to the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority, just as to “all the democratically elected Palestinian institutions”.
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