Cairo Statement hails Palestinian people for their resilience and unshakeable attachment to their land
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(SDN) — Arab leaders led by Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has reiterated the urgent call “for the deployment of a United Nations protection and peacekeeping force” in the brutalized, devastated, and dehumanized occupied Palestinian territory until a two-state solution is realized.
This and other wide-ranging statements on the long-simmering Israeli-Palestinian issue were contained in the “Cairo Statement” that Arab states issued at the conclusion of their Extraordinary Arab Summit, the Palestine Summit held on Ramadan 4, 1446, which fell on March 4, 2025.
The Cairo Statement cited the May 16, 2024, Arab Summit in Manama, Bahrain, as they affirmed the outcomes of the Manama summit with all its principles enshrined in the Bahrain Declaration.
As a consequence of the summit in Manama, the Arab states “reaffirm our belief in the values of tolerance and co-existence, mutual respect among nations and people’s, the promotion of dialogue and understanding between religions, cultures, and civilizations, and the advancement of global peace and stability.”
They emphasized the Bahrain Declaration’s “call for the deployment of a United Nations protection and peacekeeping force in the occupied Palestinian territory until the realization of the two-state solution.”
“Guided by our steadfast dedication to solidarity and cooperation,” Arab leaders vowed that they “remain resolute in confronting the extraordinary challenges of this critical moment through a unified and collective approach.”
They lauded the Palestinian people for their resilience and unshakeable attachment to their land which they demonstrated when they returned to Gaza specifically in the northern Strip which they described as a “historic” act in the wake of the ceasefire accord with Israel.
“We reaffirm our steadfast commitment to implement all previous resolutions of the Council of the League of Arab States at the Summit Level concerning the Palestinian cause,” the Cairo Statement emphasized.
This comes as the Arab states decided to assert their strategic choice is the pursuit of a just and comprehensive peace that fully guarantees the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
Palestine requested Arab states to convene
The Cairo Statement identified the Palestinians’ right to freedom and the establishment of an independent, sovereign state on their national soil in accordance with the long-standing two-state solution and the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
Apparently, the Arab leaders issued the Cairo Statement in the wake of the convicted United States President Donald Trump’s oft-repeated assertion to displace and uproot 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza and establish a beach resort, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fully supported.
The Cairo Statement essentially is a rebuff of the American leader’s much-publicized plan to evict the Palestinian people as the Arab leaders approved Egypt’s proposal to rebuild Gaza at a cost of $53 billion.
Recall that South Africa, supported by other countries, filed a genocide case against Israel and Netanyahu has a standing warrant of arrest issued by the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ)
South Africa filed the case on December 19, 2023, titled “Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel).
South Africa which was once lengthily ruled by apartheid claimed in the landmark case that “Israel committed, and is committing genocidal acts and genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in violation of the Genocide Convention”.
After two days of hearing on January 11 and 12, 2024, in The Hague’s Peace Palace, “The Court concluded that it is plausible that Israel’s actions in Gaza Strip could amount to genocide,” prompting it to order Israel to prevent acts contrary to the 1948 Genocide Convention
Predictably, Israel’s Netanyahu denied the accusations about Israel allegedly committing genocidal war versus the Palestinian people. Of course, observers noted that no criminals or thieves own up to their acts.
Remember Trump? He vehemently denied accusations or allegations against him but nevertheless was found guilty of 34 felony counts by New York jurors of the hush money trial on the payment of $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniel. That made Trump a convict, a felon, the first-ever sitting American president found guilty of criminal charges.
Egypt coordinated with His Majesty, Bahrain King Hamas bin Isa Al-Khalifa, president of the 33rd Ordinary Session at the Summit Level, and it was revealed the State of Palestine requested the convening of the Extraordinary Summit “to address the recent grave development” on the Palestinian cause.
Israel launched its vengeance on Hamas after the militants successfully breached the Zionist state’s tight security, killed over 1,200 and took hundreds of hostages. Netanyahu’s military has now killed over 44,000 Palestinians, the vast number of them children and women.
And the killing continues at least in Palestine’s West Bank where marauding Jewish settlers are burning houses, murdering residents, among other acts of violence with Israeli security forces doing nothing.
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has also launched attacks very recently in the West Bank, as it obviously transferred Netanyahu’s vengeance in what South Africa claimed a “genocide” against the Palestinians. (♡)
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To be updated.
Sources: Embassy of Palestine in the Philippines, Wikipedia