Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman posing for a group photo with the leaders of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League at their extraordinary summit in Riyadh, Nov. 11, 2024. (Credit: SPA/AFP)
At a summit in Riyadh on Monday, leaders of Arab and Muslim nations called for a global ban on exporting or transferring arms to Israel in response to its wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
In their joint statement, participants in the Arab League and Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit urged all countries to "ban the export or transfer of arms and munitions to Israel."
The leaders also reiterated their support for the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
"We reaffirm the full sovereignty of the State of Palestine over East Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Palestine, and reject all Israeli measures or decisions aimed at ... consolidating the Israeli colonial occupation of the city," the statement read.
The summit participants further "strongly condemned" actions by the Israeli military, describing them as a "crime of genocide ... particularly in the north of the Gaza Strip in recent weeks," denouncing torture, executions, disappearances and "ethnic cleansing."