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Arab League Leaders Call for Gaza Ceasefire at Baghdad Summit Amid Regional Crises
- The 34th Arab League Summit convened in Baghdad on May 17, 2025, with all 22 member states attending to address regional crises including the Gaza war.
- The summit focused on Gaza amid escalating violence, with Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani describing the conflict as genocide and unveiling initiatives for Arab unity.
- Leaders reiterated their endorsement of establishing a Palestinian state along the pre-1967 boundaries, designating East Jerusalem as its capital, and emphasized the need for a lasting ceasefire accompanied by unrestricted humanitarian aid delivery.
- Iraq pledged $40 million for reconstruction, split equally between Gaza and Lebanon, while UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged, “We need a permanent ceasefire, now.”
- The summit ended with calls to end hostilities and ensure aid delivery, though analysts questioned its long-term impact on Arab cohesion and regional peace prospects.
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The Arab League summit in Iraq: A missed opportunity
Baghdad, Iraq - In the wake of the Arab League summit in Baghdad, trumpeted as a success by the government and a failure by its critics, it’s hard to tell whether Iraq is booming or imploding, or both. And it depends on who you ask. The 34th Arab League Summit on 17 May focused on the genocide in Gaza, as well as regional conflicts in Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Lebanon, together with the challenges facing the new government in Syria. It was laud…
Arab Leaders Call for Gaza Ceasefire and Reconstruction at Baghdad Summit, Urge Unity on Syria - The Media Line
Arab leaders convening in Baghdad on Saturday issued […] The post Arab Leaders Call for Gaza Ceasefire and Reconstruction at Baghdad Summit, Urge Unity on Syria appeared first on The Media Line.
Twin Directors Tarzan and Arab Nasser on Spaghetti Western ‘Once Upon a Time in Gaza’: ‘With What Is Happening, the Title Is Even More Appropriate’
Gaza-born twin brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser are back in Cannes with “Once Upon a Time in Gaza,” their riff on the Western genre which, though not explicitly political, is certainly timely. Starting from its title. The film, which is premiering in Un Certain Regard, was conceived way before the current Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. It follows a young student named Yahya and a charismatic drug dealer named Osama who, while peddling drugs out of a…
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Daily FinlandArab leaders demand ceasefire in Gaza
Baghdad: Arab leaders have called for an immediate halt to the war in Gaza and voiced their rejection of forced displacement of Palestinians. In the final statement of the 34th Arab League Summit, which kicked off in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday, the leaders of the bloc’s 22 member states demanded “an immediate halt to the war in Gaza and all hostilities exacerbating civilian suffering”. The statement urged the international community, …
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