The League of Arab States, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the African Union Commission have jointly urged the implementation of the second phase of the Gaza Peace Agreement, saying it must lead to a permanent ceasefire, an end to the Israeli siege and occupation, the opening of all crossing points for humanitarian aid, and the start of Gaza's reconstruction.
Source: OIC — joint statement (primary)
The call came in a joint statement issued after a consultative meeting of the three organisations' tripartite coordination mechanism at the African Union Commission headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Wednesday 4 November, attended by high-level delegations from all three bodies, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported on Thursday.
Source: QNA via Fana News
The statement rejected any Israeli attempts or plans to forcibly displace the Palestinian people, whether from the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, describing such acts in the organisations' words as a war crime, a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and a grave threat to regional and international peace and security. That characterisation is the three bodies' stated position, attributed here as such.
Source: OIC — joint statement (primary)
Named envoys, one joint mechanism
Representing the OIC, Ambassador Assem Hanafi, Director of its Department of Palestine, stressed the need to end the occupation, halt the aggression immediately, protect civilians, ensure aid reaches Gaza and give full support to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees. Ambassador Moussa Mohamed Omar represented the African Union Commission and Ambassador Dr Fayed Mustafa represented the League of Arab States; both affirmed solidarity with the Palestinian people and rejection of forced displacement, according to the APO Group account of the meeting.
Source: APO Group / Africa Newsroom
The Palestinian news agency WAFA, reporting the same statement, said the three bodies urged an immediate and unconditional Israeli withdrawal and the creation of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state along the 4 June 1967 lines with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Source: WAFA via Daily Imroz
The phase-two push comes as Washington circulates its own draft UN plan for a Gaza stabilisation force and a Board of Peace. Read: US Draft UN Plan for Gaza Stabilisation Force
What else the statement covers
Beyond Gaza's second phase, the 13-point statement declared all Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory illegal, called for states that moved or plan to move embassies to Jerusalem to rescind those decisions, condemned violations against Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, backed the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and called for the immediate release of Palestinian tax revenues it said Israel is withholding. It also reaffirmed full support for UNRWA and urged more states to recognise Palestine and back its full UN membership.
The meeting also reviewed a conceptual paper for the tripartite mechanism itself, aimed at aligning the three organisations' diplomatic positions, implementing summit decisions and mobilising international support, and concluded with agreement to institutionalise joint diplomatic action in international forums and activate legal accountability mechanisms under international law, the OIC said.
Why it matters beyond the region
Together the three bodies speak for the Arab states, the wider Islamic world and the African continent — the broadest diplomatic bloc yet to line up publicly behind moving the Gaza agreement into its second phase rather than letting the current phase stall. For the lakhs of Punjabi and Indian workers across the Gulf and the wider Middle East, a permanent ceasefire and reopened crossings are also a practical safety and livelihoods question: reconstruction work, shipping and aid flows through the region all depend on the truce holding.
What happens next
The statement sets no deadline and names no enforcement step; its weight is diplomatic. The test will be whether the tripartite mechanism's promised joint action — coordinated positions in international forums and legal accountability moves — materialises in the planned 2027 joint action plan, and whether the Gaza agreement's second phase, with its ceasefire, crossings and reconstruction provisions, is actually implemented on the ground.