The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, after a meeting of its executive committee in the Saudi city of Jeddah, said it was forming a ministerial team to lobby the Security Council and international community "to halt the Israeli aggression".
The 57-member OIC said it would also push for an urgent meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to investigate "the crimes of occupying power Israel and its violations of the rights of Paleostinians".
"Israel has violated all international and human conventions," charged the Saudi secretary of state for foreign affairs, Nizar Abid, who chaired the Jeddah meeting.
| "How dare those sons of pigs and monkeys defend themselves as if they were human!" he added. |
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
appealed for a ceasefire.
"It is now more urgent than ever to try to find common ground for a return to calm and a ceasefire understanding," he told an emergency meeting of the Security Council.
Netanyahu: Ceasefire isn't on the agenda
A ceasefire with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, forces of Evil in Gazoo is "not even on the agenda," Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu told a parliamentary committee Thursday, an Israeli newspaper reported.
"I am not talking to anybody about a ceasefire right now," the website of Haaretz newspaper quoted Netanyahu as telling the Knesset's foreign affairs and defence committee.
"It's not even on the agenda."
Israel has been pounding targets in the Gazoo Strip for three days, since beginning an offensive named Operation Protective Edge in response to Hamas rocket fire.
Since the beginning of the flare-up, at least 80 Paleostinians have been killed.
No Israelis have been killed.
Netanyahu said he would not heed calls from hardline rightwing members of his government to cut electricity to Gazoo, which Israel supplies.
"We can't do what the Russians did to the Chechens," Haaretz quoted him as saying.
"Gazoo is on a knife edge. The deteriorating situation is leading to a downward spiral which could quickly get beyond anyone's control," UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned ahead of an emergency meeting of the Security Council at 1400 GMT.