(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) NEW YORK, Sept 11 (KUNA) -- The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States expressed on Thursday, before the meeting of the emergency UN Security Council, their strong condemnation and denunciation of the aggression launched by the Israeli occupation on Qatar that targeted civil and residential units, in a flagrant violation of international law and the UN Charter.
This was announced in a speech delivered by Kuwait's permanent delegate to the UN Ambassador Tareq Al-Bannai on behalf of the six GCC members, which also includes Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE and Oman.
Al-Bannai affirmed that targeting Qatar is a "cowardly and criminal" attack on the joint Gulf security and the shared fate of GCC States, renewing GCC full solidarity with, and support to, Doha in the face of any assault.
GCC States completely back any measures taken by Qatar to protect its sovereignty and security, and prevent the repetition of such hostile acts, he noted.
Al-Bannai also called on the international community and its concerned institutions to take proper acts against this threat to international and regional peace and security.
The attack comes within the continuous Israeli "reckless" attempts and "rogue" behavior to destabilize the region, he pointed out The Israeli occupation launched an airstrike on Qatar on Tuesday that targeted residential headquarters of some leaders of Palestinian Hamas political bureau; an act that was widely deplored on Arab and regional levels in solidarity with the Gulf state. (end) ast

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