The Secretariat General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) today condemned the Israeli attack on the Turkish liberty fleet which was trying to break the siege imposed by Israel on Gaza Strip. In a statement signed by its Secretary General Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al-Atiyyah, the Secretariat General of the GCC considered the attack as part of the internationally-rejected sea piracy and state terrorism. Al-Atiyyah suggested that Israel's deadly attack against a flotilla trying to access the Gaza Strip with a load of humanitarian aid is a war crime, citing the killing of innocent different-nationality people on board. He reiterated that the Israeli hostilities against the Palestinian people were repeated in a flagrant violation of the international law, without receiving appropriate punitive reaction. He demanded the world community, particularly the United Nations Security Council and the Quartet, to immediately intervene in the issue by pursuing the Israeli perpetrators, paving the way for sending them to appear before international justice. Al-Atiyyah also called for ending the unfair siege on Gaza Strip.
