Sydney - Middle East Times Int’l: This Wednesday morning, Cairo is witnessing an emergency meeting at the level of permanent delegates to the Arab League to discuss developments in the Gaza Strip, which was confirmed by the Permanent Representative of Palestine to the League of Arab States, Ambassador Muhannad Al-Aklouk.

For his part, Al-Aklouk said that his country requested that a meeting of the Arab League Council be held at the delegate level, in light of Israel’s continued persistence in committing the crime of genocide, and in light of the mass graves revealed in recent days, and the escalation of Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip through the use of “genocide and starvation.” » Settler terrorism in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the use of the United States of America’s “veto” in the Security Council against the State of Palestine obtaining full membership in the United Nations, and discussing Israeli threats regarding the invasion of the Palestinian city of Rafah.

It is noteworthy that the meeting will be held under the chairmanship of Mauritania (President of the current session of the Arab League Council) after the receipt of memorandums of support to the General Secretariat of the League from all Arab countries (22 countries).

The Palestinian authorities had found two mass graves containing more than 300 bodies in Gaza. It was announced that bodies were found in mass graves in Khan Yunis Hospital this week, after the withdrawal of Israeli forces, and bodies were found in Al-Shifa Hospital after an Israeli special forces operation.

The spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ravina Shamdasani, said today (Tuesday): We feel the need to sound the alarm after finding many bodies, explaining that some of the bodies are handcuffed, which of course indicates serious violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law. More investigations need to be conducted regarding it.

She stated that the United Nations Human Rights Office is working to verify the accuracy of Palestinian officials’ reports that 283 bodies were found in Nasser Hospital and 30 bodies in Al-Shifa Hospital.

Palestine TV also said that the number of bodies found in the cemetery of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip rose to 310 after 25 new bodies were recovered.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the death toll from the Israeli war had risen to 34,183, in addition to 77,143 injured.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, expressed his horror at the destruction of the Nasser and Shifa hospitals in the stricken sector, and reports of the presence of mass graves in them. In a speech before the United Nations, delivered by Shamdasani on his behalf, he denounced the Israeli strikes on Gaza in the past few days, of which he confirmed that most of the dead were women and children. He repeated his warning against a large-scale invasion of Rafah, saying it could lead to “more heinous crimes.”

According to Palestinian reports, the bodies were buried under piles of waste, and among them were women and the elderly.