The Organization of Islamic Cooperation announced the holding of an emergency summit next Sunday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to discuss the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip as the Israeli bombardment of the Strip enters its 31st day.
In a statement issued by the organization on Monday, an emergency summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was scheduled to be held on November 12 at the invitation of Saudi Arabia in its capacity as chair of the current summit.
The statement said the summit would be held "next Sunday in Riyadh with the aim of discussing the brutal Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people," without elaborating.
On October 18, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held a meeting at the level of foreign ministers on the aggression on Gaza on October 7 from the Israeli side, calling for an immediate ceasefire.
On October 30, Hossam El-Din Zaki, Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, revealed that the League's General Secretariat had received an official request from Palestine and Saudi Arabia to hold an Arab summit on November 11 to discuss "the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip."
Zaki explained in televised statements at the time that "there will be an Arab-African summit that corresponds to the date of November 11, and it is scheduled in advance several months in advance," adding that it is "an appropriate opportunity for Arabs to sit in an extraordinary summit," according to local media at the time.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza counted 10,22 and 70 martyrs since the beginning of the Israeli aggression, and confirmed that 24% of the victims of the aggression are women and children, noting that the occupation committed during the past 243 hours a major massacre that killed <> martyrs.