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OIC calls on member states to reconsider relations with Israel

August 4, 2014 at 10:53 am

Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Iyad Amin Madani, called upon all member states to reconsider their relations with Israel in light of its continued mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, Anadolu news agency reported.

The OIC, an association of 57 Muslim-majority countries, issued a statement on Sunday in which Madani urged all member states to re-examine their relations with “a government that is bound by no laws or ethics or even basic humanity”.

He also condemned Israel’s attacks on mosques and houses of worship. “The Israeli war machine is no longer satisfied with the slaughter of civilians, the demolition of homes, the burning of farms and the destruction of infrastructure; worse, it has unleashed its barbarism onto houses of worship with shameless indifference to all moral codes and utter disregard to the laws of war,” the statement read.

Madani particularly addressed those countries that “give political cover, dubious moral justification and endless supply of lethal weapons to Israel”, urging them to “realise the untold war crimes in which they will be implicated”.

The Israeli army claims that Gaza’s mosques contain stores of weapons and ammunition, an allegation denied by the Palestinian ministry of religious endowments.