Today (Wednesday) during his meeting with the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad al-Maliki, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, discussed the efforts made to stop the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian sources told Xinhua News Agency that Al-Maliki reviewed before the Secretary-General of the Arab League the intensive contacts that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is conducting with all international parties to stop this Israeli “aggression” and work to provide humanitarian and medical relief aid in light of the severe shortage that has occurred. Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are urgently running out of medical and health supplies and personnel to save hundreds of injured people from the risk of death.

The Palestinian Foreign Minister stressed the importance of providing humanitarian aid in all its forms, and the necessity of providing it, especially in light of the Israeli occupation authorities’ announcement of cutting off electricity, water, and fuel services, and the threat to bomb ration and medical supply trucks.

He pointed out the necessity of working to continue various international communications, to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, especially in light of the displacement of more than 263,000 from their homes as a result of the attacks, and calling on the international community to intervene to stop this brutal “aggression” and bring in relief aid immediately.

For his part, Aboul Gheit stressed the importance of stopping attacks and avoiding targeting all civilians, stressing the importance of effective Arab action in this regard.

The meeting came on the sidelines of the emergency meeting of the Arab League Council, which is held at the level of foreign ministers, to discuss confronting and stopping the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian death toll as a result of Israel's continuing attacks on the Gaza Strip rose for the fifth day in a row to 1,055, while the number of injured people in government hospitals reached 5,184, including children, women and the elderly, including serious and critical cases, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Today, a Palestinian official announced a power outage in the entire Gaza Strip after the only power plant in the Strip stopped due to the depletion of fuel stocks.