The Saudi Shourah Council stresses the imperative of convening the UN Security Council for urgent intervention to stop this aggression. The Shourah Council also requests the international community to shoulder its responsibilities vis-à-vis the ongoing developments, and to hold Israel internationally accountable according to the treaties relating to war crimes and genocide. 28 December 2008
28 December 2008
Saudi Arabia Gaza Statement
The Saudi Shourah Council stresses the imperative of convening the UN Security Council for urgent intervention to stop this aggression. The Shourah Council also requests the international community to shoulder its responsibilities vis-à-vis the ongoing developments, and to hold Israel internationally accountable according to the treaties relating to war crimes and genocide.
The Shourah Council invites the IPU and international, continental and regional parliamentary Unions as well as parliaments in the world to act in unison with their respective governments in order to put an end to the repeated savage aggressions on Palestine and its steadfast people.
The Council is certain that this savagery will only further the strength and solidarity of the Palestinian people. It also believes that the organized state terrorism committed against this people will not weaken their resolve to resist in order to restore their right to freedom, independence and the establishment of their state on their territory with Al Qods Al Sharif as its capital.
The Council appeals to the brother Palestinians to be united because it is high time to renounce differences and deprive the occupier from the chance to persist in its tyranny and aggression.
The Council lauds the initiative of the kingdom reflected in the order given by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, may Allah preserve him, to dispatch emergency assistance to the brothers in Gaza and to treat the wounded in the hospitals of the Kingdom. He also welcomed any Arab meeting in support of our brothers in Palestine. The Council lauds the wide-ranging contacts which he has made with world and Arab leaders to urgently consider offering support to the brother Palestinians in Gaza, and stop the aggression on them as well as to ensure all material and moral assistance to them.
The Council prays to the Almighty God to shower the Martyrs with His mercy, to give speedy recovery to the wounded, and to protect Palestine and its people from all harm.