Qatar said Saturday it will host a summit of Arab and Muslim leaders to denounce Israel's attack on Hamas officials in Doha and to show solidarity with the country.
Monday's meeting would consider "a draft resolution on the Israeli attack on the State of Qatar" to be drafted Sunday at a ministerial meeting, said foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari.
The summit reflected "broad Arab and Islamic solidarity with the State of Qatar in the face of Israel's cowardly aggression... and the categorical rejection of Israel's state terrorism,” he said, quoted by the official QNA news agency.
Israel targeted Hamas leaders Tuesday in strikes on the Qatari capital, killing five Hamas members and a Qatari security officer.
The attack drew widespread international condemnation.
Arab League spokesman Gamal Roshdy said the timing of the summit reflected “an Arab and Islamic recognition of the gravity of Israel’s assault on Qatar” and the need for a common stand to uphold international law and reject what he called Israel’s “rogue behavior.”
“The summit will review the fallout and steps needed to stop the region sliding into further conflict and violence,” Roshdy told Asharq Al-Awsat in remarks published Friday.
Arab diplomats said the summit would also set a “roadmap for joint Arab action” based on a Saudi-Egyptian initiative adopted at the Arab foreign ministers’ meeting in Cairo earlier this month.
That framework called for ending Israel’s occupation of Arab territories and rejected any durable regional cooperation under continued occupation or threats of annexation.
