CAIRO, June 14 (RIA Novosti) - Foreign ministers of Arab League countries will hold an emergency session in Cairo Friday on the situation in Palestinian territories and Lebanon, the secretary general of the 22-nation bloc said Thursday.
Amr Moussa said earlier that factional fighting in Gaza had escalated to the point where "the entire Palestinian issue is at stake."
The Gaza Strip has been swept by a new wave of armed conflict between the pro-presidential Fatah movement and Hamas militants since late last week. Over the past five days, more than 70 people have been killed, in the worst violence the region has seen since Hamas won parliamentary elections in early 2006.
The Arab League ministers will also discuss the situation in Lebanon following the deaths of Anti-Syrian lawmaker Walid Ido and nine other people in a bomb blast in northwest Beirut on Wednesday.
