Iraq calls for emergency Arab, Islamic summit to halt Israeli aggression on Lebanon

Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Fuad Hussein, yesterday proposed holding an emergency Arab and Islamic summit aimed at “unifying efforts to halt Israeli aggression” in Lebanon, Anadolu reported.

Since Monday morning, the Israeli military has launched what is described as its “most intense and wide-ranging” assault on Lebanon since hostilities with Hezbollah began nearly a year ago. The attacks resulted in 569 deaths, including 50 children and 94 women, and left 1,835 wounded, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

Hussein, who also serves as deputy prime minister, stated via X: “During yesterday’s meeting of the council of the Arab League at the ministerial level, I proposed the convening of an emergency Arab and Islamic summit aimed at unifying efforts to stop the Israeli aggression on Lebanon.”

He emphasised “the importance of urgent action and collective efforts to protect the Lebanese people and defend their legitimate rights by international law.”

For decades, Israel has occupied Arab territories in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine.

Since 8 October, Lebanese and Palestinian factions in Lebanon, primarily Hezbollah, have been exchanging daily cross-border fire with Israeli occupation forces across the Blue Line, resulting in hundreds of casualties, mostly on the Lebanese side.

These factions are calling for an end to Israel’s US-backed war on Gaza, which began on 7 October and has left over 137,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, the majority of whom are children and women.

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