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Arab League to hold Mideast crisis talks

(AFP)
Updated: 2007-06-15 01:01

Arab foreign ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting in Cairo on
Friday to discuss the violence in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, a league
official told AFP.

Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa attends a meeting at the Arab
League headquarters in Cairo, 2006. Mussa called for an immediate halt to
deadly infighting in the Gaza Strip, warning of the danger it poses to
the Palestinian cause.[AFP]

"We will hold an extraordinary meeting on Friday to examine the situation
in the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon," Hisham Yussef, Arab
League Secretary General Amr Mussa's chief of staff told AFP late
Wednesday.

Yussef said the meeting -- initially scheduled for Saturday -- had been
brought forward because of the severity of the situation.

On Wednesday, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora called for crisis
talks to discuss the murder of MP Walid Eido, a vocal critic of the
Syrian regime, who was killed along with his eldest son, two bodyguards
and six other people in a seafront bomb blast.

In the Gaza Strip, fierce gunbattles between loyalists of president
Mahmud Abbas' Fatah party and supporters of the Islamist Hamas movement
have killed more than 70 people in three days and were continuing in Gaza
City on Thursday.

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