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Kuwait calls for urgent meeting on Gaza crisis
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleCAIRO — Kuwait requests an urgent Arab foreign ministers meeting to discuss “the deteriorating situation” in the Gaza Strip, its Arab League representative says.
The Arab foreign ministers’ meeting is expected to take place on Monday, an Arab League official tells AFP.
Kuwait, the current rotating president of the Arab League summit, requests the meeting “to discuss the deterioration of the situation in the Gaza Strip,” its permanent representative to the Pan-Arab organisation, Aziz Rahim Al-Daihani, tells AFP.
The move comes as the United States says it is ready to leverage its relationships in the Middle East to try to bring about a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement ruling Gaza.
— AFP
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