The Shoura Council held here today an ordinary session presided over by the council's chairman Sheikh Dr. Salih bin Abdulllah bin Homaid. At the beginning of the session, the council condemned the siege imposed by the Israeli aggression against Gaza Strip in occupied Palestine and the resulting great deterioration of humanitarian, economic and security situations and the breakdown of public facilities in the strip. In a statement read by the chairman, the council appealed to governments and international organizations led by the United Nations and the Security Council to condemn this oppressive siege. The council called on all to swiftly move to lift it off the people of Gaza Strip and force Israel to stop its repeated violations. The council demanded that parliaments all over the world, regional and continental parliamentary federations and the International Parliamentary Federation support the Palestinian people in their ordeal, enable them to attain their rights and establish peace and security in this part of the world which has been suffering from injustice and oppression for a long time. --more
