On the occasion of the meeting of foreign ministers of the Muslim bloc held in Istanbul on November 3, Turkiye's foreign minister Hakan Fidan said, “Our principle is that Palestinians should govern the Palestinians and ensure their own security, the international community should support this in the best possible way – diplomatically, institutionally and economically. Nobody wants to see a new system of tutelage emerge”.

Attended by eight Arab-Muslim countries – Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkiye, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE – the meeting of Arab-Islamic foreign ministers in a statement, “jointly called for urgent humanitarian aid for the Palestinians, condemned Israeli ceasefire violations, demanded Israel’s withdrawal from the Occupied Palestinian Territory and emphasised the rebuilding of Gaza”.

At the Istanbul meeting, it was also revealed that reconciliation efforts between Hamas and the PLO will yield positive results, and the UN Security Council must endorse the proposal for the International Stabilisation Force (ISF). It has been almost a month since US President Donald Trump brokered the ceasefire agreement on Gaza.

The agreement is still in its first phase following the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Once that phase is complete, Israel is supposed to withdraw its forces from Gaza, leading to the deployment of the ISF. In the meantime, humanitarian assistance for 2.3 million beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza is still not fully allowed by Israel, which is delaying the phase covering reconstruction and........

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