Arab League summit calls for UN peacekeeping force in Gaza, East Jerusalem and West Bank

Arab League secretary general Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Bahrain foreign minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani at the 33rd Arab League summit in the Bahraini capital, Manama. Photograph: Mazen Mahdi/AFP via Getty Images

This was the first summit since the Gaza war and the first in Bahrain. All attendees backed the summit’s calls even though Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Sudan normalised relations with Israel in 2020. With the Middle East in crisis mode, key decision-makers from Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Egypt attended the summit.

The summit proposed an international peace conference to promote the Israeli evacuation of Palestinian territory it occupied in 1967 and the creation of a Palestinian state in line with the 2002 Arab plan. This pledged full relations with Israel following its complete withdrawal from Palestinian territory. The US insists this goal can be achieved only in direct negotiations between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Israel.

The Arab states seek the emergence of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with its capital in East Jerusalem. This sector of the city was annexed by Israel, which has planted 517,000 settlers in the West Bank and 200,000 in East Jerusalem, according to Israeli statistics.

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