GAZA, Sept 15 (Bernama-Xinhua) -- Hamas on Sunday called on the Arab-Islamic summit scheduled to be held in Doha on Monday (Sept 15) to take immediate steps to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza, lift the blockade, and safeguard the sovereignty and collective security of Arab and Islamic countries, reported Xinhua.
Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas' political bureau, said in a press statement that the summit should be "a decisive turning point for an Arab decision to halt the aggression against Gaza, end the siege immediately, and protect the sovereignty and national security of Arab countries".
He added that the Doha meeting should represent "a historic consensus in which the Arab and Islamic nations mobilise all tools of power to stop the war in Gaza and Israeli actions in the West Bank, Jerusalem, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Tunisia, and Qatar".
Al-Risheq accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of "expanding the conflict to the region in an attempt to redraw the Middle East map and dominate it, driven by extremist visions of Greater Israel".
He said such policies "put the entire region on the verge of explosion".
He also condemned the Israeli attack on Hamas' negotiation team in Doha, calling it "a blatant attempt to undermine Qatar's mediation efforts to halt the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza".
Meanwhile, Hamas political bureau member Basem Naim said in a press statement that the "attack against Qatar once again revealed Israel's treacherous nature, which disregards agreements and commitments".
"Our region and the world face a defining moment: either allowing Israel to continue its aggression and destabilisation of the region, or uniting efforts to stop the chaos imposed by Netanyahu and his government," Naim said.
He expressed Hamas' hope that the summit would adopt a unified Arab-Islamic stance to sever ties with Israel and hold it accountable for its actions.
Also on Sunday, Hamas said it had sent an urgent memorandum to Arab and Islamic states, influential countries, the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the African Union Commission, and the United Nations.
The memorandum, a copy of which was obtained by Xinhua, detailed what Hamas described as an Israeli "treacherous" attempt to assassinate its negotiation delegation in Doha.
According to the memorandum, Hamas' leadership, including its negotiation team, met on September 8 with Qatari officials, who presented a new ceasefire proposal.
On September 9, Israeli aircraft struck the home of Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas' negotiation delegation, killing five Hamas members, including his son and a Qatari security guard. Several members of al-Hayya's family were injured, while the Hamas negotiators survived.
The memorandum described the attack as "a serious violation of Qatar's sovereignty, the mediator state in the negotiations".
It stressed that Hamas had shown "maximum flexibility" in efforts to stop the war, while Israel "continued to obstruct agreements through assassinations, new conditions, and massacres, using negotiations as a cover to buy time".
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