Arab League to Hold Emergency Meeting on Palestine Issue

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Arab League to Hold Emergency Meeting on Palestine Issue

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The Arab League (AL) will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss the worsening situation in the Palestinian lands, Mohammed Sobeih, Palestinian permanent representative to the AL, said on Sunday.

Speaking to Egypt's official MENA news agency, Sobeih said the Palestinian side has appealed to the 22-member pan-Arab forum, based in Cairo, to convene the meeting, which will be attended by permanent delegates to the AL.

He said he will submit to the meeting a detailed report on the latest Israeli escalation and its siege of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

By Saturday morning, the Israeli army had demolished most of buildings in Arafat's compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

On Sunday, the third day of the Israeli siege of Arafat's officebuilding in his compound, the Palestinians in towns of the West Bank and Gaza took to the street to show their support for the Palestinian leader.

Earlier in the day, Israeli bulldozers were reportedly about to demolish the last buildings in Arafat's Ramallah headquarters.

The Israeli army launched offensives against Arafat's compound and made an incursion into Gaza on Thursday to avenge two earlier suicide bombing attacks in Israel, which killed eight people and injured some 60 others.

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