According to the Turkish Foreign Ministry, the meeting will discuss "the ongoing genocide being perpetrated against the Palestinian people," as well as Israel's decision to expand its military operations in the Gaza Strip.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation announced on Thursday that the meeting would be held to coordinate positions and joint efforts to confront Israeli plans to perpetuate the occupation and impose complete control over the Gaza Strip.
In a related development, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday evening his directives to accelerate implementation of the plan to occupy Gaza City, which was approved on August 8, ignoring mediators' efforts to extract an Israeli response to a proposed ceasefire.
These developments have raised international warnings of the risk of the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip, increased suffering of Palestinians, and their forced displacement.
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With American support, Israel has been committing genocidal crimes in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including murder, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt the operation.
The genocide left 62,622 Palestinians dead and 157,673 wounded, most of them children and women. More than 9,000 people are missing, hundreds of thousands are displaced, and a famine has killed 281 Palestinians, including 114 children, as of Saturday.
For decades, Israel has occupied Palestine and territories in Syria and Lebanon, and refuses to withdraw from these territories and establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, along the pre-1967 borders.
