- The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) strongly condemns the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip and expresses sympathy with the Palestinian people.
- The GCC urges for an immediate and lasting truce in Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to enter the region.
- The GCC holds Israel fully accountable for the ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people and denounces any possible justification for it.
Geneva, June 20, 2024. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has strongly condemned the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip and expressed its sympathy with the Palestinian people. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) urged for an immediate and lasting truce in Gaza during the Interactive Dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which includes East Jerusalem and Israel, to allow humanitarian aid to enter the region. The council also denounced any possible justification for the ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people. The international community held Israel fully accountable, and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) expressed sadness over the report's findings from the World Commission of Inquiry. On behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Dr. Hend Abdalrahman Al-Muftah, Qatar's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, delivered a speech in which he emphasized the ongoing violations and attacks on innocent civilians carried out by the Israeli occupation.
These violations and attacks have led to the deaths of 38,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In the eyes of the international community, these actions constitute flagrant violations of international law and international humanitarian law, according to the international community. Dr. Al-Muftah expressed his dissatisfaction with the fact that the committee's report appears to link the victim, the Palestinian people, with the perpetrator, the occupying authority, which has been abusing Palestinian rights and perpetrating genocide for more than 75 years with complete disregard for international law.
