Member-states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have condemned Israel’s “terrorist act” on defenceless Palestinians at a summit held in Banjul.

The OIC in a communique expressed deep concern about the “unjust, inhumane conditions to which Palestinian prisoners, specifically children, are exposed in Israeli detention centres, their continued detention, torture and deprivation of appropriate health care, and the humiliating treatment of their families by Israel, the colonial occupation authority, including depriving them of visits, confirms the illegitimacy of the racist Israeli judicial system that permits such illegal and inhumane policies”. 

“We condemn in the strongest terms the terrorist acts committed by the Israeli settlers against defenceless Palestinian citizens and their property, which have escalated dangerously under the protection of the Israeli colonial occupation forces by arming them and inciting the killing of Palestinians, and in this regard calls for the settlers to be held accountable for the crimes they commit against the Palestinian people and their property, and to work to classify the Jewish settlement movements and their accomplices as terrorist groups, organizations, and armed militias and include them on global terrorist lists.”

“Urgently calls on the OIC Member States to do everything necessary at all levels to stop and confront the crimes committed by the occupation against the Palestinian people, hold their perpetrators, be they civilian or military, accountable and bring them to justice, provide all forms of financial support and humanitarian relief, and work to lift the siege imposed on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip since over 16 years,” it added.

Reporting by Adama Makasuba