Arab League calls for UN peacekeepers in Palestinian territories

The Arab League on Thursday called for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

At a summit meeting of the 22-member organization, the group also called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and strongly condemned the advance of the Israeli army into the city of Rafah in the south of the coastal region, which is overcrowded with refugees.

Irreversible steps toward a two-state solution in Israel and the Palestinian territories must be taken, it said in the summit's final declaration.