After emergency summit, Arab leaders to call to ‘review diplomatic ties’ with Israel

Arab and Muslim leaders call to review diplomatic and economic ties with Israel after its unprecedented attack targeting Hamas leaders in Qatar, according to a draft statement seen by AFP.

The summit in Doha adopts a joint statement that it has yet to make public, but in a draft seen by AFP, it calls “upon all states to take all possible legal and effective measures to prevent Israel from continuing its actions against the Palestinian people, including by… reviewing diplomatic and economic relations with it, and initiating legal proceedings against it.”

Israel has long maintained ties with Egypt and Jordan, and brokered ties five years ago with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, while it has pushed to expand its relations with Saudi Arabia and recently even Syria.