CAIRO, 17-8-2026 WAFA — The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Nabil Fahmy, called on Monday for a unified international stance against Israel's efforts to thwart U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza plan, welcoming the statement issued yesterday by eight Arab and Islamic countries condemning the explicit Israeli rejection of the plan.
In a statement, Fahmy stressed that the stance of the occupying state and its prime minister reveals a clear intention to thwart all the efforts of mediators and freeze the status quo in Gaza, which means continuing the policy of daily killing, expanding the area of occupation, and preventing any remedy for the inhumane conditions experienced by more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the past three years.
He noted that the Israeli Prime Minister is driven by clear domestic calculations, adding that his declared positions demonstrate a disregard for the international will embodied in the peace plan and UN Security Council Resolution 2803.
The Arab League chief explained that the occupying state wants to impose its will not only on the Palestinians alone, but on the entire world, and that it envisions agreements that entail obligations on only one side without bearing any obligations itself—whether to halt the killing or to withdraw from the lands it has occupied in the Gaza Strip—which does not hold up by any logical standard.
Fahmy urged all countries that still believe in the two-state solution as the sole path to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to take a unified and clear stance against the extremist Israeli government, whose prime minister declares his rejection of the principle of establishing a Palestinian state, so that the occupying state realizes that its disregard for the international will in such a way will not pass without a price.
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