Cairo: Palestine’s Arab League representative, Ambassador Mohannad Al Aklouk, called Wednesday for freezing the Israeli occupation’s membership in international organizations. Addressing an extraordinary Arab League Council session in Cairo, Al Aklouk further called for sanctions, economic and political isolation, and legal prosecution of the occupation.

According to Qatar News Agency, Al Aklouk’s call is based on the Israeli occupation’s ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip since Tuesday’s dawn, violating the Doha-signed ceasefire agreement that took effect on January 19. He urged the international community to fulfill its legal obligations to protect the Palestinian people, ensure that Israel, the occupying power, respects international law, and prohibits economic and military dealings with it.

Al Aklouk emphasized that the Israeli entity not only threatens Arab national security but also attacks it, as it plans to annex more than 70% of the West Bank and expand its occupation into Syrian and Lebanese territories. He added that the Israeli entity seeks to seize Arab natural resources, threaten Arab water and economic security, work to obliterate Arab identity, steal Arab heritage, culture, and narrative, and alter the historical and legal status quo in the occupied city of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites, primarily the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

He noted that Israel seeks to impose its sovereignty over these sites, similar to the division and control of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city of Hebron.