Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani urged the international community on Sunday to “stop using double standards” and punish Israel for what he described as its “crimes.”
He was speaking at a preparatory meeting on the eve of an emergency summit of Arab and Muslim leaders organized by Qatar after Israel carried out an unprecedented airstrike on Hamas leaders in Doha last Tuesday.
“The time has come for the international community to stop using double standards and to punish Israel for all the crimes it has committed, and Israel needs to know that the ongoing war of extermination that our brotherly Palestinian people is being subjected to, and whose aim is to expel them from their land, will not work,” the prime minister said.
Sheikh Mohammed also said that Israel’s “practices” will not stop Doha’s mediation efforts with Egypt and the US to end the war in Gaza.
Foreign ministers met in Doha on Sunday to prepare for Monday’s summit.
Qatari foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said Saturday that Monday’s summit will discuss “a resolution on the Israeli attack on the State of Qatar,” which will be drafted during Sunday’s ministerial meeting.
The summit reflects “broad Arab and Islamic solidarity with the State of Qatar in the face of Israel’s cowardly aggression... and the categorical rejection of Israel’s state terrorism,” al-Ansari was quoted as saying by the official Qatar News Agency.