Arab League accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing
Others also criticised Israel, with Arab parliament speaker Adel Al-Asoumi accusing Israel of “war crimes and of full-fledged crimes against humanity”
![An Israeli security force member detains a protester during a demonstration held by Palestinians to show their solidarity amid Israel-Gaza fighting, at Damascus Gate just outside Jerusalem’s Old City [Ammar Awad/Reuters]](https://947631.windlasstrade-hk.tech/sites/default/files/styles/big_3/public/images/2021/05/18/2021-05-18t123059z_192530676_rc2cin9wpjye_rtrmadp_3_israel-palestinians.jpg)
An Israeli security force member detains a protester during a demonstration held by Palestinians to show their solidarity amid Israel-Gaza fighting, at Damascus Gate just outside Jerusalem’s Old City [Ammar Awad/Reuters]
The Arab League parliament has convened an extraordinary meeting in Cairo to express solidarity with the Palestinians and condemn Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, reports the Al Jazeera.
The Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said: "The truth is becoming crystal clear now with all its ugliness and hideousness: we are before a colonising people that lives under an apartheid state and an occupation government that systematically practices ethnic cleansing."
Others also criticised Israel, with Arab parliament speaker Adel Al-Asoumi accusing Israel of "war crimes and of full-fledged crimes against humanity".
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