Cairo and Ankara support no-fly zone over Gaza - Haneyya gov't asks Arab League to activate its resolutions

Cairo and Ankara support no-fly zone over Gaza

[ 11/04/2011 - 10:13 AM ]

CAIRO, (PIC)-- Cairo and Ankara on Sunday declared their support for the Arab League's decision which called on the UN security council to impose a no-fly zone on the densely-populated Gaza Strip in order to prevent Israel from striking civilians.

Egyptian minister of foreign affairs Nabil Al-Arabi said the Arab demand for a no-fly zone over Gaza is a fair request and Egypt supports it.

Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu for his part said that Israel should stop its attacks and blockade on Gaza and the international community should do its best in this regard.

"If there is any Arab proposal in this regard, Turkey will support it," Davutoglu added.

In this context, diplomatic sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the foreign ministers of Egypt and Turkey intervened and stopped Israel from waging a new devastating war on Gaza through contacting European and American parties to curb Israel from committing new war crimes.

The sources added that Davutoglu and Arabi also contacted UN officials to pressure Israel to stop its aggression against Gaza, and the officials conveyed Israel's readiness to accept calm in Gaza, but it insists on targeting Palestinian resistance leaders.

Haneyya gov't asks Arab League to activate its resolutions

[ 11/04/2011 - 09:53 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- The Gaza government of Ismail Haneyya has called on the Arab League to seriously follow up implementation of its resolutions regarding the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

It said in a statement on Sunday that it appreciated the speedy meeting of the League to discuss the aggression, adding that it was about time for a strong Arab action to check the Israeli attacks and to prosecute the Israeli war criminals.

The government also asked the UN and other international agencies to review the Israeli violations and war crimes against the Palestinians and take whatever measures necessary to prosecute the perpetratros.

It urged the media to expose the Israeli atrocities and to publish images of the Israeli masscres in lines of the civilian population.

The government said that the Palestinian people withstood the aggression and backed the governement's stand in insisting on national constants.

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