Arab foreign ministers who met here yesterday approved a draft resolution calling for an immediate halt to the Israeli aggression which has killed more than a thousand Palestinians in Gaza.
The ministers approved a proposal calling on Arab countries to "pledge financial aid for Gaza reconstruction estimated to cost US$2 billion" and another US$500 million of extra aid to the Palestinian Authority.
The draft will be tabled to the Arab Economic, Social and Development Summit to be held in Kuwait City on Monday and Tuesday.
United Nations and Gaza health officials have estimated that some 1,100 Palestinians have been killed since the Israeli began its merciless attacks on Dec 27.
Apart from underlining the urgency of stopping the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the draft calls for the reopening of all Gaza's border crossings.
It holds Israel responsible for all the atrocities in Gaza and the violations of the international humanitarian laws.
It urges the UN human rights agencies to probe into serious crimes against humanity committed by the Israeli army against the Palestinian people during the brutal aggression on Gaza and bring to justice those who are responsible for such crimes.
While thanking the countries which have been sending humanitarian aids to Gaza, the draft renewed condemnation of "the brutal aggression on the defenceless Palestinian people in Gaza Strip."
It said the Israeli army had used all kinds of lethal weapons including internationally-banned ones since the start of the aggression.
