Chairman of the African Union Fee Mahmoud Ali Youssouf delivers a speech in the course of the second Italy-Africa Summit on the Addis Worldwide Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on February 14, 2026.
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The “extermination” of the Palestinian individuals should finish, the chairman of the African Union Fee Mahmoud Ali Youssouf mentioned on Saturday (February 14, 2026) as he launched the organisation’s thirty ninth summit.
“Within the Center East, Palestine and the struggling of its individuals additionally problem our consciences. The extermination of this individuals should cease,” mentioned Mr. Youssouf, who was elected to move the establishment a yr in the past.
The Gaza Strip, a small territory surrounded by Israel, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea, has been underneath a really strict Israeli siege for the reason that begin of the conflict triggered by Hamas’s lethal assault on October 7, 2023.
That assault resulted within the deaths of 1,221 individuals on the Israeli facet, largely civilians, in response to an AFP tally primarily based on official information.
Since then, a minimum of 71,667 Palestinians have been killed within the small coastal territory by Israel’s retaliatory army marketing campaign, in response to Gaza’s Well being Ministry.
He additionally touched on the a number of conflicts raging in Africa.
“From Sudan to the Sahel, to japanese Democratic Republic of Congo, in Somalia and elsewhere, our individuals proceed to pay the heavy worth of instability,” Mr. Youssouf mentioned.
The summit brings collectively heads of state from the 55 member states of the African Union over two days.
This yr’s theme is water sanitation.
Revealed – February 14, 2026 08:57 pm IST