Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abul Gheit warned today Wednesday of “the consequences of attacking and killing Palestinians in cold blood”, calling on the international community to intervene to protect civilians among the Palestinian people and stop the Israeli killing machine.
Jamal Rushdie, spokesman for the Secretary-General, said: “Yesterday we witnessed the killing of five Palestinians in separate incidents at the hands of the occupying forces.”
Abul Gheit confirmed that “the systematic escalation that is not far from the rise of the Israeli right and its dominance over Israeli politics”, warning that “the emergence of extreme extremist elements on the political scene will have dangerous consequences.”
He added: “Pushing the Palestinian people into a corner and endangering their security in such a dangerous way, as well as depriving them of any political horizon they can count on, could lead to a violent explosion of the situation that would not be in the interests of any party.”
