Union of Councils of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) member states has called for bringing to book Israelis who committed war crimes in Gaza and seriously violated the international humanitarian and criminal laws.
Addressing the opening session of a meeting for the Union's Permanent Committee on Palestine, in Khartoum on Sunday, the secretary general of the Union Mahmoud Arol Galig, urged the international community to "speak out and condemn the terrorist Israeli aggression on Gaza." For his part, head of the Palestinian delegation to the meeting, Khaled Mesmar called for pressing the world governments to support "Gaza children and women who faced the Israeli aggression.
"It is the right of the Palestinian people to live like all other peoples," he told the meeting.
For his part, Speaker of the Sudanese Parliament, Al-Fateh Izz-Eddin urged the Union to organize a donor conference to support Gaza and the reconstruction process in the Strip, and to demand placing the Palestinian territories under international protection.
He also called for bringing to justice all those who committed war crimes against the Palestinians, urging the international community to assume its legal responsibility. He referred to the international silence over the crimes in Gaza as "collusion with the enemy".
Izz-Eddin referred to the last ceasefire in Gaza as "circumstantial victory and achieves part of the Palestinian demands.