Zameer headed to Jeddah to attend OIC meeting on Israel’s ongoing atrocities

Maldivian Foreign Minister Moosa Zameer is scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday evening to attend a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) regarding Israel’s ongoing atrocities in Palestine and the larger Middle Eastern region.

According to the Foreign Ministry, Zameer will be representing Maldives at an open-ended extraordinary meeting of OIC’s executive committee.

The meeting will take place on Wednesday in Jeddah.

At the meeting, foreign ministers of OIC member states will convene to discuss “Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and attacks against Iran’s sovereignty.”

The meeting was called by Iran over Israel’s continued acts of genocide in Palestine.

It also comes after Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of Palestine resistance group Hamas’ political bureau, was assassinated in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on July 31. It came just hours after Israel targeted and killed top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in a retaliatory strike on the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Israel has yet to confirm or deny its involvement on the killing of Haniyeh, 62, who was in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian the previous day.

But Tehran has blamed Israel for the assassination.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said last weekend that the attack was carried out using a short-range projectile which was fired from outside Haniyeh’s residence.

The assassination was condemned by the Maldivian government, which last week called on all nations to “uphold international law and international humanitarian law and work together towards finding an urgent and lasting solution to the Gaza crisis and ensuring peace and stability in the region.”

Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza has killed over 39,600 people and wounded 91,535 others.

The assassination of Haniyeh in Iran and the Hezbollah military commander in Beirut has renewed concerns over the war breaking out into a regional conflict.