The Permanent Representative of Palestine to the Arab League, Muhannad Al-Aklouk, announced on Tuesday that an emergency meeting was held at the level of permanent delegates to the League, to discuss developments in the Gaza Strip and listen to a UN briefing.

This came in a statement made by Al-Aklouk, amid the continuation of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip since October 7. Al-Aklouk said that Palestine “requested, on Monday, that a meeting of the Arab League Council be held at the delegate level in light of Israel’s continuation and persistence in committing the total crime of genocide, and in light of what was revealed in recent days of mass graves of Palestinians as a result of the crimes of the Israeli occupation, in contrast to the American veto in the Security Council against Palestine.” 

Last Thursday, the United States used its veto power to prevent the passage of a draft resolution in the Security Council, demanding that Palestine be granted full membership in the United Nations.

He added: "Indeed, the meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, and the League Council will discuss these events and a briefing will be heard from the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese."

He pointed out that the meeting will be held under the chairmanship of Mauritania, president of the current session of the Arab League Council, after the receipt of memorandums of support to the League’s General Secretariat from all Arab countries (22 countries).

Yesterday, Monday, the government media office in the Gaza Strip announced that the fate of about 2,000 people who were in Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis when Israeli forces stormed it in February “is still unknown.”

On the same day, the Civil Defense Service in the Gaza Strip announced that the number of bodies discovered had risen to 283, in a mass grave in the “Nasser” Medical Complex that was discovered last Friday evening.

Since October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza with American support, leaving more than 110,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, in addition to more than 7,000 missing, massive destruction, and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly, according to Palestinian and UN data.

Israel continues its war despite the issuance of an immediate ceasefire resolution by the Security Council, and despite its appearance before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing "genocide."