Arab League urges int’l protection for Gaza
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
CAIRO, July 14 (agencies): The Arab League has called on the "international community" to end Israeli air strikes on Gaza and to protect Palestinians, ahead of a foreign ministers' meeting later Monday.
Israel pressed its campaign of punishing raids on Gaza for a seventh day on Monday, but held off from launching a threatened ground incursion as the world intensified efforts to broker a truce.
The Arab League "affirmed the necessity of urgent steps for an immediate end to the Israeli aggression on Gaza and providing protection for the Palestinians", it said in a report to be submitted to the ministerial meeting.
Israeli "air strikes on Gaza have become a matter that cannot be met with silence any more", it said.
The pan-Arab organisation "demands that the international community intervene through its legal and humanitarian institutions to protect the Palestinian people".
Meanwhile: Palestinian Territories, July 14, 2014 (AFP) - A Palestinian was killed by the Israeli army in a clash south of the West Bank city of Hebron early on Monday, his family said.
Relatives identified the man as Munir Ahmed Badarin, in his early twenties.
They said he was shot in clashes near Al-Samua, in the southernmost part of the West Bank, and died later in hospital.