An emergency meeting of the Arab League (AL) Council started here on Monday to discuss the continued Israeli raids and siege on the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported.
The meeting at the level of permanent delegates was presided by the Algerian ambassador to the AL Abdel Qader Hajjar and attended by AL Secretary General Amr Moussa, said the report.
The meeting of the Cairo-based Arab bloc is set to hammer out a comprehensive Arab plan including political and diplomatic stepson facing the Israeli strikes on Gaza which have killed at least37 Palestinians.
Earlier on Monday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged Israel to stop its military operations and siege on Gaza which have caused not only Palestinian lives but also escalated humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territories.
The main power station that supplies Gaza electricity completely stopped on Sunday night due to fuel shortage.
Israel on Thursday decided to tightened a closure that has been imposed on Gaza since mid June last year, when Hamas took control of the coastal strip. All crossings leading to Gaza have been closed down.
Since Thursday, Israel has been barring fuels and basic food products from reaching the coast strip, in retaliation to ongoing makeshift rocket attacks carried out by Palestinian militants from Gaza against Israel.
Source: Xinhua
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