Sudan on Sunday denounced Israel as "barbaric" for killing dozens of Palestinians and appealed to the United Nations to pressure Israel into ending the violence.
The Sudanese foreign ministry called upon the United Nations and the international community to "exert necessary pressures on Israel to discontinue its repressive practices," it said in a statement.
The ministry also appealed to Arab League officials meeting in Cairo Sunday to take "practical measures" to confront "the provocative Israeli acts."
It pledged "absolute support" to all measures and efforts decided by the Arab League in facing Israel's "wicked practices" against the Islamic holy shrines in Jerusalem.
It regarded the visit Thursday by Israel's right-wing Likud party leader Ariel Sharon and the ensuing bloody incidents at the Muslim holy site in Jerusalem as "an affront to Arab and Muslim feellings."
The recent incidents in Jerusalem are part of Israel's "expansionist practices" in which it seeks to make its goals facts on the ground, it said.
They are aimed at undermining the final settlement negotiations with the Palestinians on determining which side has sovereignty of Jerusalem which "is of vital importance to Palestine and to all Arabs and Muslims," it said -- KHARTOUM (AFP)
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