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Arab foreign ministers on way to Gaza for solidarity visit

By REUTERS

NOVEMBER 20, 2012 11:37

CAIRO - Foreign ministers from a group of Arab states and Turkey are on their way to Gaza to show their solidarity with the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave, an Arab League source said on Tuesday.

The visit was planned at an emergency Arab League meeting in Cairo last Saturday, at which Arab ministers gave their backing to Egyptian efforts to try to secure a truce between Israelis and Palestinians.

"The foreign ministers of Egypt, Morocco, Palestine, Iraq, Sudan, Qatar, Lebanon, (and) Jordan along with the Turkish foreign minister left from Cairo to Al-Arish city (near Egypt's border with Gaza) from where they will cross the Egyptian Rafah crossing into Gaza," the Arab League source said.

Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby said in an earlier news conference with .. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the ministerial delegation was "going to Gaza strip to express their full solidarity with the Palestinian people there".

Arab ministers have condemned the Israeli air offensive on Gaza that began on Wednesday in response a barrage of rockets fired by Hamas into southern Israel.

Some 110 Palestinians have been killed, including 27 children. Three Israelis were killed last week when a Gaza missile struck their house.

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