The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said today (Sunday) that Israel is launching a “scorched earth” policy in the Gaza Strip for the purpose of displacement at the expense of neighboring countries.

Aboul Gheit added during the activities of the “Sixth Cairo Water Week” with the participation of regional and international organizations that the destruction of infrastructure and water networks in Gaza is “war crimes,” according to what the Arab World News Agency reported.

In another context, the Secretary-General of the Arab League stated that Arab water security still faces “growing challenges that require strengthening joint Arab action to keep pace with those challenges.”

He explained that these challenges threaten “an alarming decline in water levels.”