Member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday issued a final declaration, following an extraordinary Islamic summit conference in Istanbul in response to "the grave developments" in Palestine.
The statement called on major international bodies such as UN Security Council, UN secretary general, Human Rights Council and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to immediately set up a committee to probe Zionist crimes in the occupied lands.
The statement also underlined the significance of cooperation within a specified framework with Arab League, Europe and Africa and other international and regional institutions.
Leaders of the OIC member states also urged the international community to protect the Palestinian nation by dispatching international peace keeping forces to the occupied lands. Muslim countries participating in the Istanbul meeting condemned the Zionist regime for committing unlawful, inhuman and barbaric crimes against the oppressed Palestinians, particularly the Palestinians of the Gaza strip.
The statement called the Zionist regime an occupying power and the main culprit behind the deaths of over 60 Palestinian civilians, among them children, and injury of over 2,700 others, during Nakba protests.
The crimes came on the heels of illegal relocation of US Embassy to Holy Quds, which emboldened the Zionist regime to continue its strikes against the innocent people, the statement said.
Stressing the need to preserve the historic, spiritual and legal status of the city of al-Quds, the statement called on the international bodies, UN Security Council in particular, to take steps to punish the Zionist regime for its crimes against the Palestinians.
The statement said America's illegal recognition of Quds as the capital of the occupying regime of Israel is invalid, describing the move as an attack on the historic, national, natural and legal rights of the Palestinian nation.
After the relocation of the U.S. embassy to al-Quds, tens of thousands of Palestinians protested the move, and were brutally suppressed by the Israeli military forces.
At least 60 Palestinians were martyred and some 3,000 others injured by live fire or other lethal means.The extraordinary session of OIC on Palestine, Israeli crimes in Gaza and relocation of the US embassy relocation started on Friday with the presence of high-ranking officials from more than 40 countries in Istanbul.
Leaders of OIC Member States came together in Istanbul on Friday evening to condemn the Zionist regime’s recent crimes and relocation of US embassy to Quds.The Islamic Republic of Iran participated in the event at the highest level, as President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took part in the two-day event.
Turkey as the rotatory chairman of OIC has invited leaders and foreign ministers of Islamic states to attend the emergency meeting aimed at reviewing situation in the occupied lands.
President Hassan Rouhani left Istanbul for Tehran early Saturday after participating in an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Palestine.
