DHAKA: The Arab League has called on the ‘international community’ to end Israeli air strikes on Gaza and to protect Palestinians, ahead of a foreign ministers’ meeting later on Monday.
Israel pressed its campaign of punishing raids on Gaza for a seventh day on Monday, but held off from launching a threatened ground incursion as the world intensified efforts to broker a truce.
The Straits Times publishes this report.
BDST: 1819 HRS, JUL 14, 2014