The Executive Committee convened in its expanded extraordinary meeting at a foreign ministers' level, held at the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah on 10 July 2014. In a statement to Saudi Press Agency (SPA), proceeding from the principles and objectives of the charter of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and pursuant to the OIC resolutions on the issue of Palestine and Al-Quds Al-Sharif, the OIC executive Committee paid tribute to the Palestinian people's resistance in the face of the Israeli aggressions, reiterating its support for the Palestinian people's just struggle to recover their inalienable national rights including the concretization of the sovereignty of the independent state of Palestine with Al-Quds as its capital. "The OIC foreign ministers affirmed that the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, which encompass Gaza and the West Bank, including Eastern Al-Quds, constitute a single geographic unit and following closely the barbaric military campaign executed by the Israeli occupation army in the Gaza Strip through the use of war planes and heavy weapons targeting hundreds of positions in the besieged Gaza Strip, most of them residential homes occupied by civilians, civilian facilities, infrastructure and farming areas, which led to the martyrdom and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including many children, women and the aged," the Final Communiqué added. The OIC condemned in the strongest terms the heinous crime of abduction and assassination perpetrated against the Palestinian youth Mohamed Abu Kdhir at the hands of extremist settlers in the occupied city of Al-Quds, expressing its condolences and deep consolation to the Palestinian people on the child's martyrdom, endorsing the massive international condemnation of this outrageous crime, holding Israel fully responsible for the fallouts of such barbaric acts and crimes perpetrated by the extremist settlers against the Palestinian people, as the party that aided their establishment on the occupied Palestinian territories. --More 22:59 LOCAL TIME 19:59 GMT تغريد
