Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy on Sunday urged U.S. President Donald Trump to rein in Israeli policies toward Palestinians, warning that escalating tensions have brought the region to a "moment of explosion."
"The situation in the region is heading toward a very dangerous point and is approaching a moment of explosion on more than one level,” Fahmy said in a statement ahead of a planned meeting between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Tuesday.
He attributed the current state of tension "to the deadlock facing the Palestinian issue,” and "the reckless escalation and brinkmanship policies that characterize the Gulf crisis."
The Israeli army killed more than 73,000 people and injured 174,000 others in a brutal offensive in Gaza since October 2023. Tel Aviv also escalated attacks in the occupied West Bank, killing nearly 1,200 Palestinians during the same period.
Israel and the U.S. also launched joint attacks on Iran in February, pushing Tehran to launch retaliatory strikes against Gulf nations hosting U.S. assets amid escalating regional tensions.
