NAM Committee to Hold Gaza Meeting in Tehran
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Foreign ministers of the Palestine Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) will gather in Tehran next week to discuss the Gaza crisis in an emergency one-day meeting, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham announced on Sunday that UN envoys of the member states of the NAM Palestine Committee have already held an emergency meeting on Gaza at the UN headquarters in New York, following a call by the Iran’s ambassador to the UN.
Now the forthcoming one-day emergency meeting in Tehran aims to devise the necessary plans to alleviate sufferings of innocent people of Gaza following Israel’s military offensive, Iranian Foreign Ministry’s official website reported.
Algeria, Bangladesh, Cuba, Egypt, India, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia, Palestine, Zimbabwe, Indonesia and Malaysia comprise the member states of the Palestine Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Afkham further noted that over the past 10 days, urgent meetings and intensive talks have been held in New York to examine how the NAM could help end the human tragedy in the Gaza Strip.
On July 8, Israel launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip. After 10 days of bombardment of the enclave from the air and sea, the Israeli forces started a ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
The death toll from 20 days of Israeli onslaught on Gaza has reached around 1,200 and nearly 6,000 have been wounded.