A release issued by Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and Arab Ambassadors in Geneva pulls wool over its eyes on the Hamas and called on international community to intervene to stop immediately the military operations, to help the ongoing efforts in bringing about a ceasefire and to end the so called occupation.

OIC claims that “(these) attacks are a grave violation of International Humanitarian Law in particular the 4th Geneva Convention applicable in the Occupied Palestinian Territory especially with regard to collective punishment and targeting of civilians, as well as of international human rights standards. Israel must be held accountable for these violations and crimes.’

OIC is also silent about the Hamas passed a radical Islamic bill ushering whipping, dismembering and execution as standard punitive action into the Gaza penal code, as reported by the London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Hayat on Wednesday.

OIC release said ‘we strongly condemn the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people launched on 27 December 2008 and which has thus far resulted in the death of more than 300 people and over 1400 injured. Most of the victims are civilians, women and children.”

OIC did not voice its concern on the terrorism attack on Mumbai in which upward of 195 innocent people who were killed who were mostly civilians, women and children.

The Expanded Executive Committee of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is scheduled to hold on Saturday, January 3rd, 2009, an emergency meeting at the ministerial level at the OIC headquarters.

A meeting at the OIC ambassadorial level will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, December 31st, 2008, at the OIC headquarters in the lead up to the ministerial meeting.