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UN Human Rights Council to hold urgent debate on Tuesday on Israeli attack on Qatar
The UN Human Rights Council will hold an urgent debate on Tuesday to discuss the “recent military aggression carried out by the State of Israel against the State of Qatar”.
The council said in a statement that the urgent meeting will take place after it received two official requests, one from Pakistan on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and another from Kuwait on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Last week, Israel launched an attack on Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital, Doha, which was widely condemned by world leaders.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said during a preparatory meeting on Sunday before today’s Arab and Islamic countries summit that it was time for the international community to “abandon dual standards and to hold Israel accountable for all the crimes it has committed”.
Muslim world expects action against Israel from Qatar summit: Pakistan’s foreign minister
Pakistani Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar has told Al Jazeera that the world’s Muslim population expects concrete action against Israel out of the emergency summit in Doha.
“If the countries and the leaders and the statesmen who meet … just sit, make strong speeches without a very clear roadmap [of] how to deal with this situation, it will be very sad,” he said.
Ishaq Dar added that he believed the Arab League had already discussed “some sort of combined security force”.
Asked if Pakistan would support such an approach, he replied: “Nuclear-powered Pakistan obviously would stand as a member of the Muslim world and discharge its duty.”
Expectations for action out of Doha summit ‘too high’
Any measures against Israel decided on at an emergency summit in Doha are unlikely to satisfy public expectations for action across the Arab world, says Mohamad Elmasry, media studies professor at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies.
He said potential outcomes that could be considered include a military alliance, economic sanctions, closures of airspace to Israeli aircraft and withdrawals from the Abraham Accords.
But expectations were “maybe a bit too high” before the summit, he said.
“It’s likely that things are going to fall well short of expectations primarily because there are too many countries,” he said. “They have diverging interests, and they don’t all agree on taking these kinds of actions.”
He said that while “it should be clear” that the Abraham Accords normalising relations between Israel and a number of Arab states had been a bad idea, he would be “very surprised” if countries agreed to pull out.
“I think it’s unlikely because there are actors, like the UAE, like Morocco, who value their relationships with Israel.”
Just like the EU... Israel only needs to keep a few countries on board as die hard supporters to sabotage any cooperation...
