[NYTr] Arab League Demands UN Intervention in Palestine

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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Arab League Demands UN Intervention in Palestine

Cairo, Jan 6 (Prensa Latina) The secretary general of the Arab League,
Amr Mousa, called on the United Nations to intervene immediately to
stop Israel's crimes in the Gaza Strip.

In a communiqué released at the AL headquarters, Mousa condemned
international passivity and urged the UN, the European Union, Russia
and the United States - all members of the so-called Middle East
Quartet - to intervene.

The Israeli army murdered at least 12 Palestinians, including two
women, and several dozens were wounded on Thursday and Friday, during
air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian
security sources.

Israel has proceeded with its policy of massacres and selective
assassinations, destroying houses and enlarging its settlements by
building new houses, humiliating the Palestinians at border checkpoints
and imposing measures of siege and hunger, Mousa said.

The Arab leader questioned the peace-making efforts of the peace
conference held in November in Annapolis, where Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas committed
themselves to reaching an agreement in 2008.

Israel's attacks jeopardize the peace-making efforts and negotiations
agreed upon after that meeting, Mousa warned.

Since November 27 to date, more than 100 Palestinians have been killed
and hundreds have been wounded in operations by the Israeli Defense
Forces in Gaza and the West Bank.

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